Guest Column

It's quite some time ago but most of us will remember the time that your company introduced it's first intranet. With it your company got a private and affordable computer network that used Internet protocols and network connectivity to securely share any part of an organization's information or operational systems with its employees. From that moment colleagues could cooperate much more efficient, regardless allocation and time zone.

Have you heard of Web 2.0, a revolution on the Internet ? perhaps not,  but you have probably heard of facebook if you have children and you know google even if you use  internet in the most simple way.  What is it exactly? Keep it simple. Now the Web is not only a way to find and buy a product or to communicate with your family and friends, but also something to help you to find what products may be of interest for you considering who you are yours friends, or to find people you may have interest or fun to talk with.

Watch a large flock of birds in flight in the city. It is a liquid mass of self-propelling feathers. The flock swoops, dives and turns on a mark, before settling en masse on another roof. Who gives the orders? Which ex- dinosaur says; ‘Turn right at the plane tree, lads’? Nobody. A flock of birds has no leader. A shoal of fish has no leader.