I am encouraged by your feedback  Let me clear it up a bit first my version is written basically with Paul Grahams article on this topic in my mind  I think that article is neither an undue appraisal nor an unfair dismissal of the term and I think it would be a good and neutral starting point for me when I rewrite the lead  According to that article Web  can be boiled down into three things democracy Ajax and focus on user  This is how I structure the lead sentence democracy ie architecture of participation in Tim OReillys words and folksonomy in realisation and user focus in the first part and better UI powered with Ajax in the second  Specific replies as follows  lengthy list agree although the current version also features a long list as well  Perhaps we can break down that clause into two like this   that put emphasis on allowing users to share and collaborate information online in new ways as part of the service presented in a userfriendly interactive and often Ajaxenabled user interface  collaborate information my wrong  Lets preserve the order in the current version ie collaborate and share information  folksonomy see my point re democracy and architecture of participation above  I do believe that this is an important feature that distinguish Web  from the old a platform builtin as part of the service that allows users to actively contribute to the grouping and ranking of contents  You wont have that preWeb   Even the readers ranking at Amazoncom was initially a secondary feature  cluttering the lead please see if the revised version above would make it better presented  And as I have mentioned above the original version suffers from the same problem as well  focus on what web  is I believe this is what I am doing with the revised version  The current version simply mentions too much of OReilly Media but the term has evolved far beyond their reach and control  And I do believe the revised version does sufficiently address the fact that it has become a buzzword in the marketing sense