It seems to me that the death of the web page would coincide with the death of marketing...and I know that's not going to happen. I think semantic content retrieval is a good thing, since it seems to be a standardization around a more efficient way to retrieve one particular kind of information - stuff you want to know and that you have asked for. You asked for it either by performing a query (as you mention, with TVs), or by subscribing to topical feeds where content from many sites is aggregated. On the other hand, that still leaves a big area open - the type of content that orients someone around a particular subject or brand or company. In a purely semantic world where there are no web sites, just aggregators and search engines (assuming more intelligent ones than we have now), how will I discover information about a new subject about which I know nothing? I could perform a search and get back isolated random fragments, news clippings, products and other bits of information, but I'm still going to want to go to a "home" for an expert on the subject. If I look for that kind of information outside of the semantic world, someone else is going to want to be there waiting with a brand, a message, a mission statement, and (more likely than not) a ton of branding graphics and images.
The semantic world works well for the just-in-time, I-need-it-now type of information, but no one is ever going to post their "About Our Company" message to an RSS feed, and if I'm looking for a job I'm going to want to find that somewhere. Wikipedia probably won't be the best place for it. Perhaps some form of Wikis will become that "master home for all About Us pages". I dunno... Good question =] PS: The thoughts above are the result of Tuesday morning musings, and do not accurately reflect the thoughts of the left side of my brain. Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan So my question is, what do you think that the semantic web will bring? Will it ultimately bring about the death of the web page? And if so where does that leave us? Or will it only enhance our designs and sites, allowing us to bring more choice to the consumer? Sorry for the vagueness of the question but just interested if anyone has any thoughts or must reads in this area? ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
