The cover story of Business2.0 Magazine touts a list of the 50 people who matter now. Listed above tech and communication giants like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, is YOU. In their words,

“Why You Matter: They’ve long said the customer is always right. But they never really meant it. Now they have no choice. You — or rather, the collaborative intelligence of tens of millions of people, the networked you — continually create and filter new forms of content, anointing the useful, the relevant, and the amusing and rejecting the rest. You do it on websites like Amazon, Flickr, and YouTube, via podcasts and SMS polling, and on millions of self-published blogs. In every case, you’ve become an integral part of the action as a member of the aggregated, interactive, self-organizing, auto-entertaining audience… You constructed open-source and are its customer and its caretaker. None of this should be a surprise, since it was you — your crazy passions and hobbies and obsessions — that built out the Web in the first place.”

Every time we read something like this, we get the warm and fuzzies. Our business model is structured around the fact that you, the community of users, matter. You will always be #1 to us.

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