- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 00:29:23 +0100
- To: metadataportals@yahoo.com
- Cc: "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "Shavkat Karimov" <shavkat@seomanager.com>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm <metadataportals@yahoo.com>, sir, are you trolling? (Sw not SW - tsk tsk) 2008/12/7 Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm <metadataportals@yahoo.com>: > Dear Shavkat, > > The subscription would not be for all the net but for parts of the internet > that are of particular interest to a specific user, the comment was meant to > indicate an analogy to what already exists now, online excerpt databases for > professional journals. > > For example in my case I would not mind paying such a subscription if I > could get search results based on ALL searchable information and data on > sustainable development. > > Google, Yahoo! and the other search engines in a sense behave a lot like the > pharmaceutical conglomerates and multinationals, they only build > applications and services for the largest potential definable market > segments which are of interest to advertisers. > > I agree with you on the fact that freedom of access and free access are > essential, but some parts must pay for the whole, which is a business model > used by Google and Yahoo! > > The beauty of it all that in the end, standards, developing technologies and > applications and the collectivity of the users are the only things that > define the development of the internet. > > In my opinion neither Google nor Yahoo! has the required diversity of needed > human resources to upgrade to the internet giant of the semantic web > internet era. > > Milton Ponson > GSM: +297 747 8280 > Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation > PO Box 1154, Oranjestad > Aruba, Dutch Caribbean > www.rainbowwarriors.net > Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for > sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide > www.projectparadigm.info > NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm > www.ngo-opensource.org > MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data > and information for sustainable development > www.metaportal.info > SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the > Metaportal project > www.semanticwebsoftware.org > > > --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Shavkat Karimov <shavkat@seomanager.com> wrote: > > From: Shavkat Karimov <shavkat@seomanager.com> > Subject: Re[2]: The next Internet giant: linking open data, providing open > access to repositories > To: "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> > Cc: metadataportals@yahoo.com, "semantic-web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, > "public-lod" <public-lod@w3.org> > Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 7:50 PM > > I think people wouldn't pay any fees to search the web. > The FREEdom of > the Internet is why it is so powerful. Also, while I agree with most > other Milton's statements, this new Internet giant might still be > Google, since they are already going to this direction in many ways. > Thanks for the insightful post! > > Kindest regards, > Shavkat > http://www.seomanager.com > > > --- > Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:14:05 AM, you wrote: > > >> Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm wrote: >>> The next Internet giant company will be linking open data and >>> providing open access to repositories, in the process seamlessly >>> combining both paid for subscriptions, Creative Commons or similar >>> license based or open source software schemes. >>> >>> Revenues will be generated among other things from online advertising >>> streams currently not utilized by Google or Yahoo! >>> >>> In the big scheme of things this company will > redefine the concept of >>> internet search to provide access to deep(er) web levels of data and >>> information for which users will be willing to pay an annual flat fee >>> subscription. >>> >>> Sound improbable? Non-profit organizations dedicated to providing >>> global open access will soon start exploring just such business >>> schemes to determine if it is feasible to fund and maintain the server > >>> farms, hard and software to do just that. >>> >> Milton, > >> Not improbable, that's what coming :-) > >> The only tweak of you statement would be this: there will be a >> federation of linked data spaces rather than a single behemoth :-) > >> Kingsley >>> >>> Milton Ponson >>> GSM: +297 747 8280 >>> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation >>> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad >>> Aruba, Dutch > Caribbean >>> www.rainbowwarriors.net >>> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for >>> sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide >>> www.projectparadigm.info >>> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project > Paradigm >>> www.ngo-opensource.org >>> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of >>> data and information for sustainable development >>> www.metaportal.info >>> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies >>> in the Metaportal project >>> www.semanticwebsoftware.org >>> >>> > > > > > > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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