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Re: What's the Value Prop. of Linked Data?

From: Ian Davis <me@iandavis.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:24:18 +0000
Message-ID: <ec8613a80812060324o130f502evf0e1823fcae7ed4@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Aldo Bucchi" <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Juan Sequeda" <juanfederico@gmail.com>, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Hi Aldo,

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Aldo Bucchi <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Linked Data is not just a new tool that helps you develop faster ;)
> Kingsley is hinting just that. This is an industry changer.
> IT is there to help people and companies do "things". In this case,
> the "how" is also an enabler of new "what"s.
>
> Go back to when the web started: It was a developer toy... but in
> retrospective, it enabled new levels of communication and changed the
> way business, health, education, government and life happens around
> the world.
>

I can't agree more with this. I presented on similar topics at this year's
Defrag:

http://www.slideshare.net/iandavis/connected-platforms-at-defrag-2008-presentation

Ian
Received on Saturday, 6 December 2008 11:24:58 GMT

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