On 8/17/11 10:20 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
As for the mobile space, absolutely!I personally don't think the mobile space is any more or less interesting in the SemWeb debacle at all, or gives any special weight to it.
Here's why I give it special weight: 1. Form factor of phones and tablets2. Focus -- the focus the attention of the user to very specific intentions.
It's all a mish-mash network of clients and servers that should enable those killer users, that's all, whether they use a phone, tablet, PC, or paper, or their fridge. I'm almost tempted to say that SemWeb technologies enables a better mobile environment instead.
From a mobile device you can do the following: 1. Find things around you -- helps you make the best of your location2. Short Annotations -- describe where you are or what your experience was (you get some crappy service from a hotel or restaurant just make a little annotation en route to full review later) 3. Smart Friending -- discover people around you e.g. conferences, and persist your bonding via semantically enhanced pinging 4. Use QR Codes -- e.g. capture details of the presenter/speaker at a session you attend (when we get conference organizers to print QR Codes by default etc..).
I can understand that things like Google Places on a tablet with 3G is almost a killer app, it's at least damn sexy, but it's still a far cry away from getting work done and earning money or even creating something cool.
Correct. Hence my comments above.
Damn useful, but not essential, even if I'm out driving for good coffee (which is very hard to find around here).
We'll you can find coffee, beer, and much more [1] .
For the SemWeb to have its killer application, we need to look at the old definition of "application" and go from there; to apply solutions to problems not easily solved without.
Yep. Another example is EMAIL spam as per my earlier post [2].
This baggage of "an app", as you say, often served in a directory on a file system is the problem, not "an application of systems thinking through software." In many ways, SemWeb*is* service-oriented architecture, except not talked about in that way by business consultants. But you know what I think the "killer app" would be? Accurate data, or more to the point, ways of discovering and deduct more accurate data from the current imprecise and fuzzy data now available.
Serendipitous discovery of relevant things, with precision.
The representation is completely irrelevant to the problem SemWeb tries to solve, and I'm often surprised as to how little AI and clever analytics there seem to be in our domain - there's this strong trust in data providers that drives me insane! - but then, maybe I'm reading the wrong blogs or subscribed to the wrong mailing-lists ...:)
No comment :-) Links:1. http://www.delicious.com/kidehen/iphone_linkeddata -- find stuff around my current location 2. http://goo.gl/2Rqx1 -- using WebID (an application) Linked Data to kill off SPAM via semantically enhanced mail filters
3. http://www.delicious.com/kidehen/linked_data_demo -- other demos4. http://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/solving-real-problems-using-linked-data-1661535 -- solving real problems with Linked Data presentation (old presentation) 5. http://goo.gl/de5Q0 -- creating, deploying, and exploiting linked data (another old presentation) .
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