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Everyone on the panel was agreed in stressing the importance of building applications that solve real problems for real users. Neither users nor investors are particularly interested in being pitched with 'the Semantic Web' or 'RDF' or 'triples'; they want applications and solutions.
[From Commercialising the Semantic Web | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com]
Dear Semantic Web:
Most of the time I have no fucking idea what you are talking about when you explain why I should care about semantic web technologies. I really want to get excited about you but after several "year of the semantic web" declarations and very little evidence of end user benefit, well I just gloss over your pronouncements now.
I'm quite confident that in your abundant wisdom you have created something transformative and meaningful but I would implore you to move beyond "something" to "a thing". In this user driven world I don't even care about the semantic web pieces... I don't know how a microprocessor works either but I know it's a critical component.
While the efforts to define semantic web technologies are theoretically proscribed in an open standards process it has the imagery of a politburo directing the proletariat. It may well be that these core technologies reside on a level of the geek stratosphere that is well beyond the vast majority of us regular folks, but we don't need to be reminded of it.
Lastly, solving big hairy problems is likely the destiny of semantic web technologies but as Fred Wilson recently pointed out, you eat an elephant one bite at a time.
Yours Truly,
Someone Who Loves You
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