Henry,
On 7/2/2010 6:03 AM, Henry Story wrote:
On 2 Jul 2010, at 11:57, Patrick Durusau wrote:
On 7/2/2010 5:27 AM, Ian Davis wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Patrick Durusau<[email protected]> wrote:
I make this point in another post this morning but is your argument that
investment by vendors =
I think I just answered it there, before reading this message. Let me
know if not!
I think you made a very good point about needing examples so user can say: "I want
to do that."
Which was one of the strong points of HTML.
Ok, what users will want is the Social Web. And here is the way to convince
people:
"The Social Network Privacy Mess: Why we Need the Social Web"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994DvSJZyww&feature=channel
( This can of course be improved) The general ideas should be clear:
dystopia: we cannot have all social data centralised on one server.
utopia: there is a lot of money to be made in creating the social web, and
thereby
increasing democracy in the world.
This can ONLY be done with linked data. And there is a real need for it.
Several presumptions:
1) "there is a lot of money to be made creating the social web" - ? On
what economic model? Advertising? Can't simply presume that money can be
made.
2) "thereby increasing democracy in the world" - ??? Not real sure what
that has to do with social networks. However popular "increasing
democracy" may be as a slogan, it is like "fighting terrorism."
Different governments and populations have different definitions for
both. I have my own preferences but realize there are different
definitions used by others.
3) "can ONLY be done with linked data." Really? Seems like the phone
companies from your example did it long before linked data.
4) "there is a real need for it." ? I get as annoyed as anyone with the
multiple logins and universities do have some common logins for their
internal systems but I am not sure I would describe it as a need. At
least until some survey shows that a large number of users are willing
to pay for such a service.
Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend!
Patrick
Henry
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