How the Web bootstrap happened

All,

Here's an old post [1] describing how the power of hyperlinks and the 
"view source" pattern drove the Web to the point of critical mass, via 
HTML. IMHO -- a variant of this pattern (maybe: "view data" or "view 
description")  will unveil the the Web's data space dimension (re. 
Linked Data) to the masses.

Links:

1. http://bit.ly/XAyU3F -- old essay by Clay Shirkey about the Web's 
HTML driven bootstrap.

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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
Founder & CEO
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