This may have some bearing on Linked (Open) Data; just because Linked Data can be dereferenced and read via GET, does that mean it can be used and retrieved by anybody.. and related questions
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Interesting post relating to Deep Linking Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:09:03 +0000 Resent-From: www-...@w3.org Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:08:22 -0400 From: noah_mendels...@us.ibm.com To: www-...@w3.org Assuming this post is accurate, Mr. Warden was threatened with lawsuits from Facebook. He built a more or less garden variety crawler, he claims, and he observed the limitations in Facebook's robots.txt. Nonetheless, they apparently made him destroy the data. See [1]. Anyone know more about this? Noah [1] http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-got-sued-by-facebook.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------