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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet.web20

Recently, using the internet as a forum for discussion and social networking has become very popular and more people become regular users of sites that allow them to communicate with people all over the world every day.

This article dicusses an example of the WE THINK theory which is where people from all over the world collaborate their creativity and intelligence in order to make sense of, in this example, a puzzle set out by a gaming advertisement.

Over four months 600,000 people began joining groups, setting up blogs and creating bulletin boards in order to solve the puzzle that was originally started by a website being written on an advert for the new "Halo" game.

a series of tests involving public phone boxes and being able to be in the right place and answer the right questions at the right time was incredibly completed perfectly. without the use of the bulletin boards, blogs and websites the people who cracked the puzzle would not have been able to do so, or even known there was anyone else in the world who was trying to solve the riddles. The accuracy with which the tests were completed was made possible by the technology used to talk to each other. The world is no longer a big place...