Posted in Semantic Web, web on Dec 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks to all who commented to my previous post, it’s made me rethink and clarify my position on the problems with scaling Semantic Web technologies. I boiled it down to this:
Semantic Web clients beware: URIs are syntactically universal, not semantically universal.
The rationale for this is that although it is practically impossible for two disconnected parties […]
Posted in Semantic Web, web on Dec 12th, 2007 6 Comments »
I only just read Jim Hendler’s piece from last month “shirkying my responsibility”, in which he states that the W3C Semantic Web vision was never about a global shared ontology at all:
“Get it - we are opposing the idea of everyone sharing common concepts.”
This seems odd to me, because if that is the case and […]
Posted in Semantic Web, web on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Patrick Logan seems convinced that the having a proprietary runtime doesn’t matter because apollo apps can still interact with data on the web.
This doesn’t sound like a great deal to me. For example if I’m unable to run an app because the vendor doesn’t support my OS or device, then being able to fetch blobs […]
