All about connecting people ...

As Tim Berners-Lee said in a podcast currently available on the IBM developerworks web site, the Web was supposed to be all about connecting people:

It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along

For those of you who prefer to read, have a look at the transcript.