The last paragraph of the this week's Newsweek cover article by Steven Levy and Brad Stone:
Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live.
As Jerry Michalski puts it, the next killer app isn't e-commerce, or entertainment, or storage. The next killer app is other people. Or to paraphrase Ross Mayfield, we're not moving to an Internet of nouns, but an Internet of verbs.
[Hat tip to David Pescovtiz]
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