Rob Boothby
aptly describes the
recipe for success in a networked world.
Our loosely coupled webs of hypertext, services, and data
present an intriguing realm of perpetually expanding and
contracting clusters (aka conversations as exemplified by digg swarms). The only issue we
have today is that you cannot perceive the aforementioned realm
through the lenses of the Hypertext- or Interactive-Web or the API
oriented Services-Web. Which is why we need a new frontier in the
web innovation continuum. A frontier that unveils, with clarity,
the somewhat unperceived realm of "People and Data Networks" en
route to simplifying "Network Effects"
exploitation: spotting, connecting to, and constructing
conversation clusters.
Once again, this is what the Semantic Web facilitates by
delivering a Data Model that exposes these "People & Data
Networks". When you write a blog post, comment on a blog post,
share bookmarks, tag resources, share and tag photos etc. You are
contributing links and nodes to this network :-)