The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web, Alisa Leonard-Hansen, Read Write Web (Nov 20)
Will it be social web or semantic web? These are two different views. Semantic, described here, depends on development of intelligent agents to process data. Social - called the pragmatic web - is based on you and your relationship - your context.
"My Web experience becomes more meaningful and relevant to me when it is layered with contextual social data based on my identity. This is the pragmatic Web."
"Facebook is nothing more than perhaps the largest single database of this kind of online identity data: explicit, activity and relationship data. With the development of Facebook Connect, which allows for the "open" exchange of Facebook user data between Facebook and third parties,"
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