John Connell: The Blog

Look­ing back through some recent posts in Judy O’Connell’s blog, I was reminded of this chart show­ing the Seman­tics of Infor­ma­tion Con­nec­tions and Social Con­nec­tions. There’s a lot to think about in this dia­gram, not least whether the con­cept of the ‘Seman­tic Web’ really does have any ‘legs’, as they say. Or is it pos­si­ble to say that aspects of the con­cept are already in exis­tence? I’ve never really been able to grasp the poten­tial behind what, for me, is still a vague and amor­phu­ous ideal.

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§ 2 Responses to Semantic Web and Social Networks"

• Judy O'Connell says:

  April 11, 2007 at 12:37 am

  John, It is inter­est­ing to see how Ning is devel­op­ing in this con­text — the ‘myspace’ for the rest of us? I am sure other social net­work­ing plat­forms will con­tinue to emerge, and I am tip­ping that the seman­tic web will merge with net­work­ing based on a sin­gle iden­ti­tiy (OpenID?) and per­son­alised data-mining cou­pled with more devel­oped forms of RSS and per­son­al­i­sa­tion of Web 20 ‘as platform’.

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• John Connell says:

  April 11, 2007 at 4:39 am

  I haven’t looked at Ning yet, Judy, but I def­i­nitely will now. Just fin­ished a remark­able day in Costa Rica talk­ing to (and lis­ten­ing to) an amaz­ing group of peo­ple. I’ll post on it when I have time in the next day or so.

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