talking web X.0

The idea of a machine readable web isn´t really new: Tim Berners Lee published his vision of the semantic web already in 1998 and since then all the necessary standards have been developed: RDF, OWL, SPARQL.

Even the developer tools are there to create semantic web applications - what´s missing is “only” the killer application that sweetens the incredible effort to annotate all the content available on the web now.

So we really doubt that this will happen someday in one big shift. Rather there will be mergers of web 2.0 applications with semantic technologies. Tagging is only the first step in creating usergenerated unstructured meta information for all kinds of objects (links, places, even people).

We will see much more movements into this direction in the next future and by the time the tagging evolves to an structured ontology, the next big thing comes near: enabling software to reason about the data.

By structuring our knowledge in this way we will see “intelligent” applications rise that support us in our every day lives - from coordinating activities with friends and family automatically to presenting us the best solutions for our questions. And all that will always be “learned” from our personal preferences. It will almost feel like having your personal digital butler.

Solution Media is ready to do this next leap - by taking steps as big as possible and as small as the users are ready for.