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I finally get “semantic” Web

- Robert Scoble

Following a demo from Nova Spivack of Radar Network's stealth stuff.

Showing not telling, way to go Nova!

Just to clarify this bit:

Basically Web pages will no longer be just pages, or posts. They’ll all be split up into little objects, stored in a database (a massive, scalable one at that) and then your words can be displayed in different ways.

The massive, scalable database is the web, although there will be superpeers, presumably like Radar Network's setup. There will also be lots of little bits of data distributed all over - alongside, and commonly integrated with all the kinds of things we have on the web now. And it won't just be words that'll be displayed in different ways, it'll anything you can represent on a computer - things, people, concepts.

See also: Tim Berners-Lee, The Semantic Web of Data (streaming video, 8 mins 24 secs); Talis talks with Nova Spivack (podcast)

PS. Remiss of me not to link to this sooner - Michael Bergman's got a great post on using DBpedia and Open Data on the Semantic Web: Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived

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