Hello (semantic) world!

Finally here! This is the blog that will track everything relevant in the semantic web/Web 3.0 world, from both a technology and business utilization perspective. I have been a "student" of this area for quite some time, and am working on a startup project of my own related to this.

What I hope to achieve with this blog is to help create a community around "mainstreaming" Web 3.0. I believe that after 7 years of promises, the marketplace (press, investment community, startups) are just about at an inflection point of larger (than academic projects) adoption. To get a little bit of background context about where I am coming from (Web 3.0 is all about context, right?) read my articles here: Where is the Semantic Web Killer App (Part 1), and here: Where is the Semantic Web Killer App (Part 2), and take a stand whether pro or cons.

Here's how it will all work out: every week I will post 3-4 comments/thoughts about the area, some technological, some "philosophical", others very business application-driven, and would like to hear from you.

Did I also mention that we are "dogfooding" the blog by using Zemanta semantic blog capabilities, that automatically generates metadata from text and is able to hook into open data? This is all about moving from the "newspaper" web to the database web. So, here we go, dive in at your own pace.