readwriteweb.com — A critical piece of the next web evolution is the introduction of structured information. This article examines the key drivers, such as the rise of APIs and vertical applications that run on top of existing data, an increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats, and more.
Oct 10, 2007 View in Crawl 4
aupajoOct 11, 2007
Well, first off they don't open up *all* their information, only information that they want available.What they get out of it is the ability to integrate their data with other web sites/services. They can also enable integration with other sites/services to themselves. Imagine an recipe site. They have an API which allows people to make submissions via XML requests. A bakery runs a service which allows recipes to be documented in their own system. When the bakery makes a recipe on their own system, it can be extremely easy to add the functionality to automatically add that recipe on the recipe site at the same time, with no extra effort.So the bakery gets syndication, and the recipe site gets more content.
tybrisOct 11, 2007
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tybrisOct 11, 2007
Why do these semantics people always pick on (X)HTML? It's a language for laying out (hypertext) documents. It was never meant for anything else. It was never good at anything else. It was never used for anything else. There's nothing wrong with it. If it doesn't match the application you wish to build just don't use it.
longpigJan 11, 2008
what is fueling the web of the future is structured information,huuum,it is important!
paulbjensenJan 31, 2008
I like the theme behind these articles, it's been quite popular on RWW.