Here's an interesting by-product of the last O'Reilly Foo Camp - a "meme map" for web 2.0. The interesting aspect to me is this - it's the product of lots of unplanned, organic growth - the end result of lots of people working independently. In some respects, the explosive growth of web personalization (blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us) is akin to the explosive growth of inventions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - it's amazing how many people are converging toward the same set of loosely coupled ideas.

This is exactly the kind of growth that large firms aren't terribly good at. It's not that they don't have smart people, it's that the bureaucratic impulse tends to stifle independent thinking.