Re: Google and the Googlization of the semantic web

Well, I guess all the work I've been doing, in order to automatically create traceability annotations for user-generated-content upon resources to support resource recommendation of access control is going down the drain. At least I was using WebIDs, all the traceability annotations could be stored in LOD repositories and actions could be traced back to the user by using open standards.

Will this still happen with Google or Facebook? I guess they already track down everything one does. The difference is that they don't publish it but at least they could give access to the user who "generated" that information. 

Nevertheless, I still want to be able to keep my records of where I browsed, how I browsed, how many scrolls I did on one page, which resources I have uploaded (independently of each website), downloaded, etc. I want to be able to share those resources according to my rules and not by those imposed by local webserver policies and have cross-domain sharing policies so that I can manage my sharing with friends/others in a single/distributed place and not replicated and translated to each website data silo... 

For these reasons I think there's still going to be space for envisioned academic uses of semantic web.

Facebook and/or Google using WebIDs and linked data in the future? Would help in lots of aspects ;)
   
Best regards,
Nuno Bettencourt


On 26/03/2012, at 20:53, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote:

> See:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577281842851136290.html
> 
> The clock is ticking now and it seems Google will soon take over semantic web technologies, or not?
> 
> With the new privacy universal agreement introduced at the beginning of March this year by Google it was only logical that semantic search would be added to expand the data mining tool kit to optimize the utilization of user generated trails of web use.
>  
> And what will happen to the envisioned academic uses of semantic web technologies and linked data?
> 
> Are we facing a world according to Google (and FaceBook etc.)?
> 
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