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There
is a lot to be said for toys. People dismiss such in the
pursuit of the next killer business app that will make them heroically
wealthy, but fun little one offs that do something neat and get a laugh
or
provoke a thought also move an industry. The hula hoop didn't
last
long but it went ballistic. :-) One can do some neat things
with
small coherent and easily aggregated metadata if they can
think
out-of-the-data and into a visualization of what some one
person
can make of it. Right now, RDF/SemWeb is still hung
up in
the early phase of getting the core technology smooth. So
too
much attention is on the tools and not the products. This too
shall
pass. Think about XML five years ago; no one was touting
web
services; they were trying to figure out the DOM, SAX, etc.
Now we
take those for granted and agonized over the chasms
between web services and web architecture. This too shall
pass.
len
Heh - I'm afraid you're probably right there. I do
however think that the technologies can make it easier to develop quite a
range of apps that are mostly-dedicated but have a layer of
interop above syntax (so e.g. a media player could use the MusicBrainz
kb).
, as long as the data and those hypotheses are
expressed in a machine-understandable fashion. Let's get the machines doing
the work for a
change.
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