I want to be a hype-master for a day :-) So, why else talk about "web 3.0" threats?
In any case, I had this fun chat with a journalist about threats to semantic web (which some people started calling 'web 3.0'). WTF is semantic web? Wikipedia fans go here and here, others go read Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The way I understand it is: it is the web that is both human- and machine-understandable, which creates (or allows one to create) a "mash-up" of anything with anything else (well, almost) as well as allows funky automated ways of querying the web.
So, go read the piece, keeping in mind that journalists have a tendency of hearing what they are writing about, not what is being said :-)
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That article is the product of sensationalism.
No kidding! Sensationalism, pure and simple!
Yeah - you have to separate out TBL's work on the Semantic Web from O'Reilly and the Web X.0 market hype.
The short definition of the semantic Web is adding metadata to every piece of electronic data, (or creating electronic data of real-world things and metatagging it), making the world machine-readable and contextualized.
Well, I still think they are kinda related: adding metadata will make it machine-readable and thus linkable to each others....
And, yes, I totally missed "creating electronic data of real-world things and metatagging it", which is another totally cool aspect of semantic web...
Before you toss the baby out with the bathwater as the saying goes, there is some solid technology and would encourage everyone to look at RDF, OWL-S, and so on. Ponder the use of Description Logic and Reasoners. The Knowledge Mgmt and Business Intelligence people are all over it.
--tk
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