web 2.0

In the same way that double-decker busses used to materialise out of the dimness of the London smog, shape and substance is being added to the affirmations made - back in the Web 1.0 era - that the internet was only the beginning of great big change.Examples almost at random are the Silicon Valley email and computer calendar company Zimbra, Open Xchange - a collaboration business based in New York state and Germany; the San Francisco web integration specialists ActiveGrid; the rare British open source company Alfresco which does global document management from Maidenhead in Berkshire. There are also many companies - such as Platial of Portland, Oregon - who base their personal atlas on Google Earth maps, emphasising Google's benign role as a great gift to the open source movement.