This link has been bookmarked by 5 people . It was first bookmarked on 05 Aug 2008, by Jeff Walzer.
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He suggests that Web 1.0 was, fundamentally, a ‘transactional’ web; Web 2.0 a ‘participatory’ web; Web 3.0 a web in which anyone can innovate by calling upon shared resources in the Cloud.
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Discussing these posts internally, a colleague was quick to remind us that these huge hosted data centres are not just full of powerful servers. They’re full of data, ripe for interconnection and manipulation in very similar ways to those in which computers and software applications are already being meshed and combined. The Linked Data movement is increasingly central to the Semantic Web and it is a small step to move beyond its current projects to consider web-based applications that draw seamlessly upon these web-addressable pools of accessible and usable data.
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Google did web developers, application users (and themselves) a huge favour when they formalised the apis that provided access to large bodies of map data.
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we’re moving ever closer to a mode in which software is available on demand (SaaS)… and so is data
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This wealth of Web-addressable data needs web-native structures in which it can be stored and manipulated. The siloised mentality, code and structures of the RDBMS are unlikely to fit the bill here, whereas the web-native model of the Semantic Web is ready and waiting.
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