On 04/19/2010 08:06 PM, R_Macdonald wrote: > ReadWriteWebs's Co-Editor, Marshall Kirkpatrick, suggests today that > Twitter intends to leave the annotation classification system to be > determined by the market. > http://bit.ly/csK8Od > > Although I appreciate that Twitter values keeping the annotation > ecosystem open for innovation and adaptation, I hope the conversation > on Linked Data metadata standards within Twitter annotations is just > beginning. > > It could be an historic lost opportunity if the hard driving Twitter > team doesn’t step back and consider soliciting the counsel of the W3C, > Sir TB-L, Nigel Shadbolt and others in the Linked Data community. > After all, Metaweb's Freebase team is just 3 blocks away. > > That's *exactly* what I told Marshall! I know him - he lives here in PDX. Sir Tim Berners-Lee got a significant chunk of funding to develop the Semantic Web, and I'd think he'd have a lot to say about Twitter Annotations if we'd only ask him!
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