April 11th, 2009
Tim Berners-Lee on the Next Web
A great talk by the inventor of the worldwide web Tim Berners-Lee from this year’s TED conference, well worth spending 18 minutes of your life with.
It’s also worth reflecting on how new the internet is: in January 1992 there were only 50 web servers in the world after the web’s invention in 1990.As Berners-Lee says in the video above, the past was (and remains in many cases) links from single page to single page: the future is linked data.
For linked data to serve you that data needs to be free, so the old techniques of document sharing need to change to a culture of shared data: a commons of content that can be referenced in multiple ways.
Instead of hording data and documents as we do now, Berners-Lee calls for ‘raw data now’ to enable a future of sharing and therefore increased collaboration.
Oliver Marks provides seasoned independent consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of 'Enterprise 2.0' strategy, tactics, technology decisions and roll out. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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