Re: {Disarmed} Re: See Other

On 28 March 2012 15:28, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> I can't find any apps (other than mine) that actually use this.
>
> Searching:
> Sindice:
> http://sindice.com/search?q=http://graph.facebook.com
> 40 (forty) results
> Bing:
> http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22http://graph.facebook.com/%22
> 8400 results
>
> I don't think this activity has actually set the world alight yet - people
> are quite excited from what you call the Structured Data point of view, but
> little or no Linked Data.
> And it has been around for a little while now.
> And my (unproven) hypothesis is that Sindice would be finding these links
> all over the place if Facebook had been encouraged to do it differently.
>
> I'm not knocking it - you are right - it is really great they have done it.
> But I think we could have helped them do it better.
>

I wanted to give you a demo of some of the things we've been working on,
but I couldnt quite work out how to insert images to gmail.

I've blogged about it here:

http://www.w3.org/community/rww/2012/03/28/using-tabulator-to-link-to-facebook-in-chrome/

Hope that helps! :)


>
> Cheers
> Hugh
>
> On 28 Mar 2012, at 14:00, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> >
> > Hugh,
> >
> > Really short story: Facebook has delivered you enough structured data
> for you to wonder into higher Linked Data realms if you choose. Half bread
> is better than none. Facebook has contributed something like 850 million+
> profiles in structured data form to the Web, isn't that awesome? Doesn't
> that simplify the entire journey towards of a Web of semantically rich
> relations that ultimately aids:
> >
> > 1. Findability
> > 2. Disparate Data Access & Integration -- basically data virtualization
> > 3. Introduction and Exploitation of  Intensional Data Management --
> basically what's also referred to as Closed World vs Open World database
> technology
> > 4. Flexible Data Representation where schema bindings are late and loose.
> >
> > As I told you last week, Linked Data has already exploded beyond the
> point of critical mass. Stalled it hasn't :-)
> >
> > Links:
> >
> > 1. MailScanner has detected definite fraud in the website at "goo.gl".
> Do not trust this website: http://goo.gl/y7Gq4 -- an pretty old post
> titled: What Facebook Can Teach Us about Bootstrapping Linked Data at
> InterWeb Scales .
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kingsley Idehen
> > Founder & CEO
> > OpenLink Software
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> >
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