All Annotations of The New Era of Semantic Apps[Preview]

saved by9 people, first byEric Holter on 2007-10-20, last byGianto Widianto on 2008-08-15

• I'm here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O'Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine - see our review here). The panel starts with demos from each of the three speakers.
• But these new semantic apps are more open and they're platform players. Hillis says that O'Reilly is on track, and eventually "there will be one Web of data". He says Web 1.0 was a "web of documents", and that it will be the same with semantic apps - it doesn't make sense to have silos of data.
• Spivack notes that data portability and connectibility is the key to these new semantic apps - the Web is the platform and they're just different services within the platform. Hillis though disagrees - he said Freebase is a platform! So the web is the platform of platforms (!).