I’ve been asked many times to explain the Semantic Web (SW). In the past learning about technology and W3C concepts has been difficult. The average person may not derive a great deal of meaning from the W3 overview of XHTML standards. In the case of SW they do a great job and I recommend anyone read the overview available on the W3C web site. Continue reading »
There’s been alot of buzz about semantic web technology, some people calling it “Web 3.0″. The idea is that will semantic tags your web page becomes a transportable data source; any data element can be used by other applications, easy to find and make use of. Yahoo! announced their next generation search engine codename SearchMonkey ,will employ RDF semantic web tagging and will support some microformats. RDF makes web browsers smarter by giving people more options when viewing a web page, such as adding you to their address book, adding an event to their calendar, getting directions to a place described by RDF, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDF.
An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a Web 2.0 and Social media technology evangelist. Start-up veteran, President of Garfield Group Interactive a Boston-based digital agency.
