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Tim Berners-Lee Fires Salvo At Traditional Search
It is not often that I get a chance to be impressed. Over the years I have had some interesting personal experiences. I worked for Robert F. Kennedy. I met Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and a host of other technology all-stars.
Yesterday I got to meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Tim invented the World Wide Web. And now he is solidly behind the Linked Data movement. Tim was a keynote speaker at our Linked Data Planet trade show held in New York City.
Listening to Sir Tim reminded me of a speech I heard in 1992 by Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus). Kapor predicted back then that the Internet would be bigger than the PC. Yesterday Sir Tim predicted (I believe) that the Linked Data and Semantic Web movement would yield a much, much larger overall boom than what we call Search today.
Read Erin Joyce's story on InternetNews.com to get solid reporting on what Sir Tim spoke about for nearly one hour yesterday. Erin by the way is one of the great Internet journalists. She is the editor in chief of InternetNews.com and unfortunately does not get the recognition she so richly deserves.
Mark my words! One of the great waves of disintermediation is coming in the next three years. Models that many believe are sacred and destruction proof are going to be blown out of the water. If you want to keep up with this new wave then read SemanticWeb.com. Needless to say I am excited by the future.
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I'm not sure if 3 years is realistic, but there's no doubt it's coming. Look how long it's taken just for RSS to become more mainstream. Companies are very slow to adopt new things, and the current economy isn't going to help much either - there will surely be a slowdown in IT spending for non mission critical apps.
We haven't even scratched the surface of the internet yet. The three biggest players are an auction site, bookstore, and a search engine. You have to hope there's more in store for the internet!