- From: Gordon Joly <gordo@dircon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:36:41 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matt Jensen <mattj@newsblip.com>
- cc: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>, Craig Pugsley <craig.pugsley@mimesweeper.com>, "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "'semantic-web@w3.org'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
When I worked at the BBC (circa 1995-1997), I wanted the BBC to define its own DTD (in XML) for similar reasons. But my position was a producer, not a senior manager. I felt the BBC could lead on the adoption of XML. Gordo On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Matt Jensen wrote: > There is no network effect in PNG adoption, but there would be in Semantic > Web adoption. If ABCNews.com were to support a semantic standard, I now > have more of an incentive to support the standard on my own site; I'll be > able to make inferences with ABCNews.com's content. > > -Matt Jensen > NewsBlip > Seattle > > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > >... Then a form of Metcalfe's law [2] > > >applies, where other web sites have more and more reasons to join. > > > > Yes, to convince them. But like HTML (the well know computer virus), > > inertia rules. > > > > Did PNG take off like a rocket? Answer - no. And that was a very > > simple in comparison. > > > > -- Gordon Joly http://www.pobox.com/~gordo/ gordo@dircon.co.uk gordon.joly@pobox.com
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