Comments on: Corn Flakes, Cuisine, and Why You Need to Care About Web 3.0

By: Krista Thomas

Krista Thomas — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:01:48 +0000

Great post Sue, and you are spot on.

We at the OpenCalais Initiative are seeing a steady uptick in the pace of adoption of our free metatagging service — and not just by the bleeding edge.

More and more mainstream publishers are preparing their content for interoperability and tapping the Linked Data cloud — and not just for some future state vision of a “web to come.’

Rather, because they seek immediate term increases in productivity from automating metatagging, grasp the value of enhancing their content with linked data assets for free, and want to be able to automatically create topic hubs and microsites for improved SEO and reader engagement.

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:50:54 +0000

Great post and I agree with you that a shift is under way. But it’s interesting that you picked out two technologies that have a similar output, but a very different technical foundation. Wolfram|Alpha uses all sorts of cool proprietary techniques to crunch and calculate data. Rich snippets require that publishers mark up their data. So, when the former doesn’t work well, it’s an algorithmic problem. When the latter works well, it’s a data problem. Hmmm. *thinking*

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By: mathew

mathew — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:38:12 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee has been trying to get the semantic web going for years, but there’s a problem. You mentioned it:

technology is reliant upon web designers embedding special mark up codes within their content that will allow Google’s linking algorithms to grab the data

I don’t think you stressed how big this one is. There’s a real chicken-and-egg problem here:
- why mark up your site using RDFs (I assume Google’s tech uses RDF – the XML format developed by TBL’s W3C Semantic Group) when there are no apps to use it;
- why develop apps when there’s no data?

Another problem was best illustrated when I saw TBL trying to convince people to prime the pump to break this deadlock a few years back: while online publishing was easy to grok (“it’s like paper publishing, but online), the SW is hard to explain. The previous metaphors just don’t serve.

The potential goes way beyond Wolfram, particularly when coupled to ambient intelligence and natural language processing. Can you imagine being able to get any answer to any question about anything, anywhere, at any time?

- Mathew

PS Some useful links on SW: http://delicious.com/mathew/semantic

By: Michelle Tripp

Michelle Tripp — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:05:27 +0000

This is an incredible post, Sue. Semantic web has been this little nagging topic in my mind because I’ve started hearing about it so much lately. It’s been building in presence, but social media is still getting almost all the attention right now.

The power and potential of the semantic web should be making everyone feel a little uncomfortable, especially if they’re not paying attention to it. Even early adopters need to start thinking a hundred miles ahead to be ready to leverage it.

You might enjoy a post I wrote about information aggregation. It’s in line with your last comment about the next big thing being how we use information. I agree!!

In lieu of a trackback:
“How Can Big Media Get Back in the Game? The Big Bang Business Model”
http://trippmichelle.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-can-big-media-get-back-in-game-big.html

Michelle Tripp’s last blog post..Old Media Falling Into The “Digeration Gap”