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Danny Ayers has some wisdom about not reinventing the wheel for the semantic web.
Apparantly there seems to be a disconnect between the MySQL community (or CEO at least) and the Semantic Web community.
It’s hard to disagree with Danny most of the time, but I think the RDF web communty can take one thing away from this whole debate. (and I think they do)
The Semantic Web community needs to make this stuff more easily accessible to the average mortal web developer.
There was a time when there was bit of talk about using OPML and RSS as a springboard to getting kids to adopt some more sophisticated RDF stuff.
We do want to make this stuff relatively easy to experiment with, and then developers will see it’s power and want to delve deeper.
When someone makes something like a GrazrScript layer on top of a SPARQL query (hint hint), I think we’ll see some more mainstream adoption.
But ultimately, Danny and others are right. The foundations are in place.
But, as Tim Berners Lee pointed out recently, we need to have incremental adoption, and that’s all I’m driving at.
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I’m hoping part two of the latest Gillmor Gang will prove more interesting.
If you remember the Jason and the Argonauts tale, you might know how Jason succeeded in conquest over the Seed men by casting a stone at one, who thought it was his neighbor, and letting them all kill each other.
That’s what Steve Gillmor seems to do by letting the fellas discuss the importance of Google algorithms and whether site owners can get a cut by having search engines bid for their site search.
If Steve would have put the “knockoff” Cheerios down for a sec I know what he would have said.
It’s not whether Google’s algorithms hold up, it’s whether they can garner more stock in the conversation with all their attention data.
The winners of the future are not the best technologies. We’ll all be able to plug into those the same way we plug into an electrical outlet.
The winners are the services which add value to the conversations happening throughout distributed web networks.
These networks and conversations are fluid and changing constantly in response to our gestures.
Those who don’t get this are either thinking too hard or just not enough.
In a similar way that facial and hand gestures are a meaningful supplement to spoken conversations, the gestures which we talk about with attention are the metadata of the conversations happening on the web.
That equates to economic power because markets are conversations.
I agree with Jason Calacanis that many in the SEO business are trying to game this system, but I disagree when he says the system works. People are trying to game the system because it does not work. It just works better than the previous systems.
I can prove it Jason. I’ll write a better piece on a new cell phone than Engadget and see which shows up higher on Google.
No. Those dynamics are only part of the game.
The richer system envelops us with answers using our data and our network’s data in a chameleon like fashion, never static like Google. That’s child’s play.
Jason(Argonaut) succeeded in getting the Golden Fleece but was fickle and left Medea for another Princess.
Likewise, in the shorter term companies may succeed by amassing link attention.
The true winners won’t be seeking the Golden Fleece at all. They will be removing the barriers and letting the crystal waters flow in, filtered and clean, Pure Conversation.
Oracle is buying Berkely DB.
Danger!
Well, not for me, since I’m a big Postgresql fan.
But I use Wordpress, so I also use MySQL.
For those who don’t know, Oracle also bought Innobase last year.
These are the two methods which allow MySQL to conduct transactions.
What a shame. (Although I have no idea what Oracle has in mind.)
The lesson: If you build a database, make it ACID compliant from the get go.
Although, I can’t truly say yet that MySQL’s strategy wasn’t a good one. In fact, it was great. Get users.
I never quite understood why many flocked to MySQL when a superior open source alternative was available in Postgresql.
I guess it was the image that MySQL was faster. Maybe it was, but it wasn’t ACID compliant, so it wasn’t really a database.
We shall see where this goes.
