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24 September 2007
Web 2.0, the Semantic Web, Web 3.0 and San Francisco
Posted by Paul Miller at September 24, 2007 09:56 PM
Polarising the distinctions between 'Web 2.0' and the 'Semantic Web' would appear to be flavour of the month in the world of the tech blogs, despite the obvious synergies to be realised at the interface between the two.
It's good, then, to see 'Semantic Web' mindshare in that bastion of the Web 2.0 world, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle's annual Web 2.0 Summit.
Talis Platform Advisory Group stalwart (and podcast victim) Nova Spivack will be talking about his work at Radar Networks and, I hope, giving his audience a first look at the product his team have been quietly building for the past couple of years.
Danny Hillis will also be talking about Metaweb (and their first 'product', Freebase) in the same session. I can't claim Danny as an Advisory Group member, but I can say that his Minister of Information, Jamie Taylor, is doing a sterling job in that regard. He was a good podcast victim, too... :-)
The third speaker in that slot is Barney Pell, who isn't an Advisory Group member, a podcast victim, or the boss of such. Hmm... I'm clearly remiss there and will have to do something to remedy that particular oversight!
Talis CTO Ian Davis and I are hopping on the claustrophobic aluminium tube over to San Francisco for the event, and will be trying to do our usual bit to join dots, see synergies, and generally munge (it's a technical term here, trust me) Semantic with 2.0 to see what falls out the other end. I last attended this particular event way back in the dim mists of 2005, so look forward to seeing how perceptions at, of, and from it have changed in the intervening years. I certainly know that we have changed, and that our vision of the interface between the best of the Semantic Web and the best of Web 2.0 grows clearer and stronger every day...
If you're in or around San Francisco 16-21 October and fancy a chat, feel free to get in touch via any of the usual channels [irc paul_miller on freenode, Skype napm1971, AIM/iChat talis_paul@mac.com, email paul.miller@talis.com, mobile/cell +44 7769 740083, carrier pigeon/owl to Castle Talis].
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