Re: First-class data app scenarios?

How about real estate marketing? Some people in that domain appear to 
already have an interest in SIOC/Semantic Web/FOAF [1]. It's also an 
application where you could incorporate geo data.

Cheers,

Susie

[1] 
http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/2007-real-estate-technology-predictions


Danny Ayers wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas (however "pet") on
> applications/domains which might lend themselves to compelling
> showcases, but that dealt primarily with "pure" data. By that I mean
> not focussed around metadata associated with human-readable content,
> but rather on Things.
>
> I've heard of quite a few around HCLS, but these aren't really
> comprehensible for the non-specialist. Out in the Web 2.0 environment
> I can only think of social networks (i.e. some FOAF, probably not
> SIOC*), but that space seems generally overloaded with non-semweb
> applications, it would be hard to make something novel enough.
>
> Databases are used in the Enterprise for everything under the sun -
> surely there must be a few applications that would make compelling
> showcases exposed on the web..?
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
> * re. not SIOC - while I think that work has immense potential, it
> still has doc content as a big part in the form of posts
>