Dear Shavkat, The subscription would not be for all the net but for parts of the internet that are of particular interest to a specific user, the comment was meant to indicate an analogy to what already exists now, online excerpt databases for professional journals.
For example in my case I would not mind paying such a subscription if I could get search results based on ALL searchable information and data on sustainable development. Google, Yahoo! and the other search engines in a sense behave a lot like the pharmaceutical conglomerates and multinationals, they only build applications and services for the largest potential definable market segments which are of interest to advertisers. I agree with you on the fact that freedom of access and free access are essential, but some parts must pay for the whole, which is a business model used by Google and Yahoo! The beauty of it all that in the end, standards, developing technologies and applications and the collectivity of the users are the only things that define the development of the internet. In my opinion neither Google nor Yahoo! has the required diversity of needed human resources to upgrade to the internet giant of the semantic web internet era. Milton Ponson GSM: +297 747 8280 Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation PO Box 1154, Oranjestad Aruba, Dutch Caribbean www.rainbowwarriors.net Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide www.projectparadigm.info NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm www.ngo-opensource.org MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development www.metaportal.info SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the Metaportal project www.semanticwebsoftware.org --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Shavkat Karimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Shavkat Karimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re[2]: The next Internet giant: linking open data, providing open access to repositories To: "Kingsley Idehen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "semantic-web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "public-lod" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 7:50 PM I think people wouldn't pay any fees to search the web. The FREEdom of the Internet is why it is so powerful. Also, while I agree with most other Milton's statements, this new Internet giant might still be Google, since they are already going to this direction in many ways. Thanks for the insightful post! Kindest regards, Shavkat http://www.seomanager.com --- Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:14:05 AM, you wrote: > Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm wrote: >> The next Internet giant company will be linking open data and >> providing open access to repositories, in the process seamlessly >> combining both paid for subscriptions, Creative Commons or similar >> license based or open source software schemes. >> >> Revenues will be generated among other things from online advertising >> streams currently not utilized by Google or Yahoo! >> >> In the big scheme of things this company will redefine the concept of >> internet search to provide access to deep(er) web levels of data and >> information for which users will be willing to pay an annual flat fee >> subscription. >> >> Sound improbable? Non-profit organizations dedicated to providing >> global open access will soon start exploring just such business >> schemes to determine if it is feasible to fund and maintain the server >> farms, hard and software to do just that. >> > Milton, > Not improbable, that's what coming :-) > The only tweak of you statement would be this: there will be a > federation of linked data spaces rather than a single behemoth :-) > Kingsley >> >> Milton Ponson >> GSM: +297 747 8280 >> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation >> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad >> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean >> www.rainbowwarriors.net >> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for >> sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide >> www.projectparadigm.info >> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm >> www.ngo-opensource.org >> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of >> data and information for sustainable development >> www.metaportal.info >> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies >> in the Metaportal project >> www.semanticwebsoftware.org >> >>
