my bad; when i said "apps" I was thinking specifically of mashups. of course if someone writes their own app over their own data it doesn't matter how they do it.
Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 1 Mar 2007, at 04:39, David Karger wrote: > > >> This is why web 2.0 contains the seeds of its own destruction. >> Everyone >> writes web-2.0 apps by scraping web-1.5 pages (the ones that use >> <div>s >> to define structure instead of just using <p>s to define >> formatting) but >> they produce pages that can't be scraped. If ever a substantial >> fraction of the web becomes 2.0, it will collapse from the lack of 1.5 >> pages to scrape. The solution, of course, is the exhibit model, where >> the data is naked and can be scraped no matter how much you dress >> up the >> presentations. >> > > Sorry, but I don't buy any of this. There are no prominent Web 2.0 > application that work by “scraping web-1.5 pages”. And most prominent > Web 2.0 sites can be scraped just fine. And a substantial fraction of > the Web already *is* 2.0, without showing any signs of collapsing > from lack of pages to scrape. Data re-use on the Web 2.0 isn't about > scraping. It's about REST and SOAP APIs [1]. > > Best, > Richard > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
