Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The Semantic Web? I Just Figured Out Web 2.0!

Web inventer Tim Berners-Lee about new Web developments -"the "current craze" for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace would eventually be superseded by networks that connected all types of things — not just people — thanks to a ground-breaking technology known as the "semantic web".

The semantic web is the term used by the computer and internet industry to describe the next phase of the web's development, and essentially involves building web-based connectivity into any piece of data — not just a web page — so that it can "communicate" with other information. "

Web 1.0 was a snap. Web 2.0...not so easy. The semantic web...hell!

The article can be found at: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3532832.ece

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