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For only $375, you too can find out about the 8 core principles of Web 2.0 and more!

By Jason Hoffman 7 November 06

I thought Nicolas Carr was joking when he wrapped up a post saying that the price tag for Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices was $375 for the PDF.

But.

He was telling the truth.

And what’s up with Web 2.0 having “eight core patterns”?

I mean this from a larger perspective of Man.

Anyone else notice there is the Eightfold Path of the Budda and the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus (St. Augustine’s writing on the Sermon on the Mount are some of the best by the way).

See Nick? Once a classics-educated hippie, always a classics-educated hippie. But we all have to grown-up sometime.


  1. I hear it was a slim 100 pages, but then they snuck in Tim’s Infamous Chart. Presto! 101 pages!

    — Raymond Brigleb    744 days ago    #

  2. Joyent Law (yeah, fashioned after the Miller ads): any start-up that buys this publication is by definition not Web 2.0. If that even needs to be said. :)

    — David Young    744 days ago    #

  3. Web 2.0 is the only religion and Tim O’Reilly its prophet :-)

    — Pedro    744 days ago    #

  4. Nah, everyone knows it’s sevens, not eights.

    Seven fundamental equations of classical physics, seven continents, seven seas, seven wonders, seven dwarves, ...

    Pah, you silly people with your eights.

    — Nick S    743 days ago    #

  5. 7 deadly sins …

    — Jason Hoffman    743 days ago    #

  6. Don’t forget 7 days to create the Universe (including one spare day).
    Ah – and 7 Habits of Highly Succesfull people (Covey)

    — Edwin    727 days ago    #

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