One of good ideas of our boss – Jure (LinkedIn link idea is stolen from Kamenko, I’m sorry) 
was that one of us will make a presentation concerning Web, once a month (roughly).
The last one was my collegues’ – Blaž’s presentation on the theme “semantic web”.
He gave us a presentation that included YouTube video on the subject (this is the video), ppt. presentation which was the abstract of the research he made that was closed with (of course) conversation. And here’s the most interesting part:
knowing what the essence of the semantic web will be, the three of us have three (yes, three – 3) different views on the topic.
We completely agree on the fact it is suppose to give us better search, better web experience and that it will be personalized even more, but we cannot find the definition that would satisfy us all.
This is how far we came:
Semantic web is going to include vertical search. Search will be personalized to a person level, not a community as the practise is now. So for example – If I type into my search “Cool shirt” my result would be a shirt I find cool and would be completely different to search results of Jure, Blaž or you – same keyword, different results.
The question is, is this going to be completelly algorythmic driven or are people the ones to do this – as Mahalo is doing it, or Wikia. How are computers going to get to know us, how will they determine – through tags, or algorithm, or both?
What do you think?
Semantic web. Is tagging already a semantic web? Is tag search, or even better – are human powered search engines already semantic web searches? Are they only a beginning or none of the above?
Do you find “related videos” on YouTube a semantic web “tool”? Can you point to some web site you found that could have the essence of a semantic web site?
One I’ve found – it’s BlogRovr, but I would like to know more.
What’s your view on the topic?
