Why the Semantic Web Will Fail

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @11:38PM from the coopetition dept.

Jack Action writes "A researcher at Canada's National Research Council has a provocative post on his personal blog predicting that the Semantic Web will fail. The researcher notes the rising problems with Web 2.0 — MySpace blocking outside widgets, Yahoo ending Flickr identities, rumors Google will turn off its search API — and predicts these will also cripple Web 3.0." From the post: "The Semantic Web will never work because it depends on businesses working together, on them cooperating. There is no way they: (1) would agree on web standards (hah!) (2) would adopt a common vocabulary (you don't say) (3) would reliably expose their APIs so anyone could use them (as if)."

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Re:It will fail for other reasons too by jav1231 · 2007-03-21 02:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yeah because what we really need is some kind of forced cooperation mechanism! Fuckit, how about a standardizing board that dictates it! Yeah! As long as it's not the government because that would contradict my hippie tendencies.
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