Tim Berners-Lee is simply one of the fathers of the www(world wide web). He is credited with inventing it, and he currently heads W3C
His talk at TED today looks at the history of putting data on the web. It is still difficult to explain what the internet is, and just how difficult it was to put together back then. It turned out to be a much bigger thing than he thought.
Data drives our lives now. Linked data drives it even more. The more things you have to connect together, the more powerful. Need an example? Wikipedia => Dbpedia
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
Tim’s suggestion: Do not hug your data, provide raw data before the pretty website. Funny, I hugged the internet this a.m in his name! (on twitter)
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Updated on March 13th 2009 – The 20th anniversary of the www creation. TED.com posted his talk… watch below or on TED.com.
ah, there you go, hugging the internet again. I am feeling especially deprived lately with no internet access right now.
haha! wait till i start licking UI’s like Steve Jobs “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
– Jobs, on Mac OS X’s Aqua user interface (Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000)
sorry to hear about your internet deprivation, it is now on my Maslow’s hierarchy of needs btw, at the bottom!!