@prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" ; rdf:type sioct:BlogPost , atom:Entry . @prefix dc: . dc:title "The Future of the Desktop" ; foaf:maker ns1:this ; rdfs:label "The Future of the Desktop" . @prefix dt: . @prefix dcterms: . dcterms:created "2008-08-21T15:26:18Z"^^dt:dateTime ; dcterms:modified "2008-08-21T15:59:25.000001-04:00"^^dt:dateTime . @prefix sioc: . sioc:id "8a4d536d27a1f17dc97d83e608425c7b" ; sioc:link ; sioc:content "<p>\n<a href="http://www.jasonkolb.com/" id="link-id13ba6d90">Jason Kolb</a> (who <a href="http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2008/08/the-future-of-t.html" id="link-id1524e210">initially</a> nudged me to chime in), and then <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/future_of_the_desktop.php" id="link-id13a182c0">ReadWriteWeb</a>, and of course <a href="http://www.twine.com/item/11bshgkbr-1k5/the-future-of-the-desktop" id="link-id13f1e1f0">Nova&#39;s Twine about the topic</a>, have collectively started an interesting discussion about <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web">Web</a>.vNext (3.0 and beyond) under the heading: The Future of the Desktop.</p>\n\n<p>My contribution to the developing discourse takes the form of a Q&amp;A session. I&#39;ve taken the questions posed and provided answers that express my particular points of view:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: Is the desktop of the future going to just be a web-hosted version of the same old-fashioned desktop metaphors we have today?</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: No, it&#39;s going to be a more <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/" id="link-id1524d4a0">Web Architecture</a> aware and compliant variant exposed by appropriate metaphors.</blockquote>\n<br />\n\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The desktop of the future is going to be a hosted web service</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: A vessel for exploiting the virtues of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10827ad0">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id155bc698">Web</a>.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The Browser is Going to Swallow Up the Desktop</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: Literally, of course not! Metaphorically, of course! And then the Browser metaphor will decomposes into function specific bits of Web interaction amenable to orchestration by its users.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The focus of the desktop will shift from <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id1667e2e0">information</a> to attention</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: No! <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knowledge" id="link-id104bb9c8">Knowledge</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id1524dd48">Information</a>, and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Data">Data</a> sharing courtesy of <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10723640">Hyperdata</a> &amp; Hypertext Linking.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: Users are going to shift from acting as librarians to acting as daytraders</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: They were Librarians at Web 1.0, Journalist at Web 2.0, and Analysts in Web 3.0 (i.e, analyze structured and interlinked data), and CEOs in Web 4.0 (i.e. get Agents to do stuff intelligently en route to making decisions).</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<br />\n<cite>Q: The Webtop will be more social and will leverage and integrate collective intelligence</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: The <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id13a01ed0">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id106343a8">Web</a> vessel will only require you to fill in your profile (once) and then serendipitous discovery and meshing of relevant data will simply happen (the serendipity quotient will grow in line with <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10560050">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id100f4940">Web</a> density).</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The desktop of the future is going to have powerful semantic search and social search capabilities built-in</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: It is going to be able to &quot;Find&quot; rather than &quot;Search&quot; for stuff courtesy of the <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id10a18a70">Linked Data</a> <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Giant_Global_Graph" id="link-id10a976f0">Web</a>.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>\nQ: Interactive shared spaces will replace folders</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: Data Spaces and their URIs (Data Source Names) replace everything. You simply choose the exploration metaphor that best suits you space interaction needs.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The Portable Desktop</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: Ubiquitous Desktop i.e. do the same thing (all answers above) on any device connected to the Web.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The Smart Desktop</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: Vessels with access to Smart Data (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id1666e4e8">Linked Data</a> + Action driven <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Context_%28language_use%29" id="link-id171d1ff0">Context</a> sprinklings).</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: Federated, open policies and permissions</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: More federation for sure, XMPP will become a lot more important, and OAuth will enable resurgence of the federated aspects of the Web and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id100a66a8">Internet</a>.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The personal cloud</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-id104ba580">Personal Data Spaces</a> plugged into Clouds (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Intranet" id="link-id15bbb970">Intranet</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Extranet" id="link-id1026d6b0">Extranet</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id140508c8">Internet</a>).</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: The WebOS</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: An operating system endowed with traditional Database and Host Operating system functionality such as: RDF Data Model, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/SPARQL" id="link-idd86f48">SPARQL</a> Query Language, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id13f47268">URI</a> based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer" id="link-id1055bc78">Pointer mechanism</a>, and HTTP based message Bus.</blockquote>\n<br />\n<blockquote>\n<cite>Q: Who is most likely to own the future desktop?</cite>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>A: You! And all you need is a <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id106b79e8">URI</a> (an ID or Data Source Name for &quot;<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id133c88a0">Entity</a> You&quot;) and a Profile Page (a place where &quot;<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id15fa8060">Entity</a> You&quot; is Describe by You).</blockquote>\n<h3>One Last Thing</h3>\n<p>You can get a feel for the future desktop by <a href="http://ode.openlinksw.com/#Download" id="link-id165ec048">downloading</a> and then installing the <a href="http://ode.openlinksw.com/" id="link-id13baba38">OpenLink Data Explorer</a> plugin for Firefox, which allows you to switch viewing modes between Web Page and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data" id="link-id13f12410">Linked Data</a> behind the page. :-)</p>\n<h3>Related</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-id12496e48">OpenLink Data Spaces</a>\n</li>\n<li>\n <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/GetAPersonalURIIn5MinutesOrLess" id="link-id1027f060">Get Yourself a URI in 5 Minutes or Less</a>\n</li>\n<li>\n <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/presentations/DataPortability_and_DataSpaces/DataPortability_and_DataSpaces.html" id="link-id10890f70">Linked Data Spaces &amp; Data Portability</a>\n</li>\n<li>\n <a href="http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/presentations/Creating_Deploying_Exploiting_Linked_Data2/Creating_Deploying_Exploiting_Linked_Data2_TimBL_v3.html" id="link-id137efdf8">Linked Data Conference Keynote</a> (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDFa" id="link-id1239d300">RDFa</a> based remix edition that includes vital bits from <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i" id="link-id1317a048">TimBL</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.linkeddataplanet.com/" id="link-id165f57c8">Linked Data Planet presentation</a>).</li>\n</ul>\n" ; atom:title "The Future of the Desktop" . @prefix ns10: . sioc:has_creator ns10:this ; sioc:has_container ; sioc:links_to , . @prefix ns11: . sioc:links_to ns11:Download . @prefix ns12: . sioc:links_to ns12:GetAPersonalURIIn5MinutesOrLess , . @prefix ns13: . sioc:links_to ns13:the-future-of-the-desktop , , . @prefix dbpedia: . sioc:links_to dbpedia:Internet , , dbpedia:Entity . @prefix ns15: . sioc:links_to ns15:i . @prefix ns16: . sioc:links_to ns16:OpenLink_Data_Spaces , dbpedia:Knowledge , dbpedia:Information , dbpedia:SPARQL , , dbpedia:Giant_Global_Graph , dbpedia:RDFa , dbpedia:OpenLink_Data_Spaces , dbpedia:Uniform_Resource_Identifier , dbpedia:Linked_Data , dbpedia:Extranet , , , ns16:Pointer , dbpedia:Intranet ; atom:source ; atom:author ns1:this ; atom:published "2008-08-21T15:26:18Z" ; atom:updated "2008-08-21T19:59:25Z" ; sioc:has_reply , . @prefix opl: . opl:isDescribedUsing ; rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:Comment ; rdfs:label "Re:The Future of the Desktop" ; rdf:type sioct:Comment , atom:Entry ; rdfs:label "Re:The Future of the Desktop" . ns10:this rdf:type sioc:User .@prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person ; foaf:made . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" . @prefix sioc: . sioc:container_of ; atom:entry ; atom:contains ; rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:Comment ; rdfs:label "Re:The Future of the Desktop" ; sioc:reply_of ; rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:Comment ; rdfs:label "Re:The Future of the Desktop" ; sioc:reply_of ; rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:BlogPost ; rdfs:label "Take N: Yet Another OpenLink Data Spaces Introduction" ; sioc:links_to . @prefix ns7: . ns7:this rdf:type sioc:User ; sioc:creator_of .