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Happy New Year (of semantic web) 2007!
The "5 things you don't know about me" internet meme have taken a nice spin recently. Google now returns 32.500 occurences of '"blog-tag" pulver', and about 136.000 occurences of '"blog-tag" "5 things"' (alright it's 174k after 2 days). Although big part of the blogosphere seems to attribute its beginning to Jeff Pulver (the father of VoIP), searches reveal that the meme itself had already appeared in various forms in the past.
It's a beautiful reflection of the humanity in the network. It's exciting and breath taking. It's a blink of what Jonathan Schwartz of Sun coined as Participation Age.
It also reveals how primitive is the way we access the things on the network. We can track particular person to person interactions, enthusiastic bloggers are tracking individual generations of this meme; however the path often ends due to a mistyped or mistargeted link and to get a big picture is almost impossible.
Fortunately something is being done. It's the web of data or web 3.0, if you will (or excuse). It's Talk Digger and SIOC that will allow us to observe the next wave from birds-eye perspective. It's the semantic web (hopefully with semantic desktop #2 #3) that will unleash the power of the network. It's all these things together finally emerging in 2007. So exciting!
Happy New Year!
-Jiri Kopsa
Posted at 09:11PM Dec 27, 2006 by Jiri Kopsa in RFE | Comments[1]
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