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a personal flow of consciousness - by - Matteo Brunati

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I agree to you that Link is both of information conductor and data conductor. An addition I want to make is that the distinction between an information conductor and a data conductor could be more than the difference between URL and URI. In short, information is data in context, while a context itself could be another data. Therefore, theoretically an information conductor is (and probably should be) a higher-order data conductor. Or let’s put it in another way: an information conductor can be computed by several data conductors and a data conductor can be derived from information conductors. Thinking Space: The Link in Linked Web
My main claim with this post is that companies in the Web 3.0 and semantic web space are downright bad at filling unmet needs, packaging their offer effectively and cutting through the market noise to secure users and revenues. It even appears this incapacity to grow revenues has a direct impact on their ability to make money (ok, it’s sunny outside, after five days of clouds there is no harm in having a little fun, is there? ;) The large and growing number of players at SemTech told me that we are already in a crowded market. And yet: few real products, and very few sales. Most of the people there live on R&D funding from public institutions and overtrusting angels, not client receivables. Why? As a VC said during his talk, “this is a very early-stage market”. Allow me to translate. That’s code for “I don’t get it, what are you guys selling here? Better fix that quick if you want me to come back next year Semantics Incorporated: Attention Web 3.0 Start-Ups: Redirect 25% of your R&D Budget to Market Understanding and Development | Twine
So let’s forget forget about convincing thousands of web developers to learn and start using semantic markup. Forget Microformats. Forget RDFa. Everything about the semantic web boils down to one thing: reusable data. And existing data already published on the web can be made reusable by the crowd, using simple tools. Within a year we could have thousands of reusable semantic data sources! lexanderA » Crowdsourcing the semantic web