Cat. T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing. Too much information, you say?
On the Internet, there seems to be no such thing. A wave of Web start-ups aims to help people indulge their urge to divulge — from sites like Blippy, which Mr. Brooks used to broadcast news of what he bought, to Foursquare, a mobile social network that allows people to announce their precise location to the world, to Skimble, an application that people use to reveal, say, how many push-ups they are doing and how long they spend in class. Not that long ago, many were leery of using their real names on the Web, let alone sharing potentially embarrassing personal details about their shopping and lifestyle habits. But these start-ups are exploiting a mood of online openness, despite possible hidden dangers. Facebook Open Graph: A new take on semantic web. A few weeks ago, Facebook announced an Open Graph initiative – a move considered to be a turning point not just for the social networking giant, but for the web at large.
The company’s new vision is no longer to just connect people. Facebook now wants to connect people around and across the web through concepts they are interested in. This vision of the web isn’t really new. Its origins go back the the person who invented the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This vision has been passionately shared and debated by the tech community over the last decade. Semantic Web. Gazettes.