That’s not a question you’ll hear a lot of people ask. In addition to being an internationally recognized authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, an award-winning strategy researcher, and a professor of high-tech entrepreneurship, strategy, and venture finance at some of the most impressive schools you can name, Amy Shuen is also the author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide. At the recent Web 2.0 Expo in SF, we couldn’t keep enough copies of her book in stock; you would think it was required reading.

If you missed seeing Amy at the Expo, you can catch her in this fun video blog caught on the fly at the Expo by Robert Scoble. Amy’s own blog is an entertaining and educational read, too.

The winner of the free copy of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide

Two weeks ago, I offered to award a free copy of Amy’s book to someone who posted a comment about Web 2.0 to this blog. As always, the comments were excellent. In my totally arbitrary fashion, I have selected Scott Hodson as the winner (and I’ll notify him soon). He wrote:

I love Web 2.0 and the ability to mash other apps together! Over a year ago I created a WiFi maps site (http://802.11maps.com) using Google maps API and find the site very useful, and so do many others. I look forward to adding features to allow others to add value to our site through APIs and developer tools as well. Perhaps one of my greatest challenges is learning how to share and feel OK with it. It’s hard sharing or giving something away, something you created and worked on so much, but the hope is that in return for sharing the overall whole value of the effort will be much greater through the contributions of others.”
Scott Hodson | April 29, 2008 01:35 PM

Thanks for posting, Scott. And thank you to everyone else who posted a comment! Keep posting. I’ll have another book giveaway soon, and the odds of winning are excellent.