"In 2007, Web 2.0 culture was marked by optimism about an open, interoperable web of services connected through APIs."
Dixon uses Alexis Madrigal's 2017 retrospective to capture the Web 2.0 optimism of 2007, when the web was imagined as open and services were expected to interoperate through APIs; see Chris Dixon, Read Write Own, p. 103, Cornerstone Kindle Edition.
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