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Why the Semantic Web Will Fail

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Far out! by neonmonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank God for Web4.1!

    1. Re:Far out! by Threni · · Score: 3, Funny

      > Thank God for Web4.1!

      Software development is getting worse. x.1 of anything is as bad as 1.0 used to be. You'd be advised to wait for Web4.2 or at the very least Web4.1 Service Pack 1.

    2. Re:Far out! by alexwcovington · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except Google, where everything is in permanent Beta!

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      (It's never too late to join the Renaissance)
    3. Re:Far out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Personally, I'll be happy when Web3.11 for Workgroups comes out.

  2. "Why the semantic web will fail" by ilovegeorgebush · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...says the guy who's blogging this opinion...

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    ilovegeorgebush
    1. Re:"Why the semantic web will fail" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      For some reason, it keeps spitting 4chan out as the answer.

    2. Re:"Why the semantic web will fail" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Here, take this bleach.

  3. The real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The researcher is just annoyed because no one sent him invites to Gmail.

  4. You keep using that word... by thenerdgod · · Score: 1, Funny

    I do not think it means what you think it means