Semantic Web at Web2.0 Summit

In the latest web2.0 summit, more excitement about semantic web are coming out! Besides powerset, two more companies officicially announced their products, twine and freebase. Twine is a knowledge orgnization tool, with which you can mark any interested document on the web, then the twine engine could automatically discover the semantic tags in it and merge them into the your knowledge center. Freebase is an open semantically-tagged database.


What is more exciting is that now a lot more people are paying attention to the semantic/intelligent future of web. Here are some very insightful quotes (http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8404935373453506700):



"Tim O'Reilly (The guy popluarlized the concept of web 2.0) brings up Google, Flickr interestingness and how users can influence results (collective intelligence etc), but that it's usually passive and hidden behind silos. But these new semantic apps are more open and they're platform players. "


"Barney (Powerset) says the real value is "making explicit what was once implicit" (in terms of data)"



"Hillis (From freebase) says Web 1.0 was a "web of documents", and that it will be the same with semantic apps - it doesn't make sense to have silos of data."



This is a graph from Nova's blog, which presents his vision of the future of web, basically pretty optimistic about semantics.