+1 thanks Nathan for pointing this out, very very relevant. "luckly" so far it seems a bit too rooted in MS stack of things (just looking at it very very superficially) :-)?
Gio > ps: realistically there's the whole microsoft thing to keep in the back > of our minds; they have pretty much a semi-proprietary full end to end > of most of the above, from M through OData through Pivot via silverlight > and seadragon - and realistically by 2011 this will be starting to take > off in a big way; there is a chance "linked data" could miss the boat > and become nothing more than legacy data which people transform in to > odata then use on the (by then) well supported and rolled out tech stack. > > pps: google are pushing in this direction too, it won't be long before > we get a big surprise from their end (gdata + openid + oauth + > gmail/buzz-additions + chromium-os + chrome + android + comparatively > unlimited resources and thousands of amazing developers + a huge > developer community) > > regardless of what anybody says, these two companies will push there own > versions of what we're doing out within the next 12-18 months, with full > developer support. > > please do remember I'm a huge linked data fan & have my interests firmly > planted in linked data + read/write web - just aware of the realities at > hand. > > regards! > >
