Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web

An anonymous reader writes "As we all know, Tim Berners-Lee is the hero of the Web's creation story--he conjured up this system and chose not to capitalize on it commercially. It turns out that Sir Tim (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July) had a much grander plan in mind all along--a little something he calls the Semantic Web that would enable computers to extract meaning from far-flung information as easily as today's Internet links individual documents. In an interview with Technology Review, the Web-maestro explains his vision of 'a single Web of meaning, about everything and for everyone.'"

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Re:The rest of us call this...

[maxpublic]

they seem to have hit a chord with gmail.

You mean a buggy, still-beta, feature-deficient webmail service that's distinguished only by the fact that it offers 1 GB of space? Space that 99% of it's userbase will never come close to using more than a fraction of?

Seems to me that gmail primarily appeals to a) zealot geeks who enshrine Google as something holy, and b) geeks who define the size of their own manhood by the diskspace available in their gmail account.

So far I have *not* been impressed with gmail.

Max