RE: [syndication] Sneak Preview: my.info

["Andrew Peloso" <drew@onclave.com>]

Leigh Dodds wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should differentiate between the author (or authority) behind
> some information and the source (the information provider) from which you
> retrieve it.
>
> In most cases you care about who (or what) wrote the information not
> from where it came from (i.e. who sent it, or how you got it).
>
> However I can imagine applications in which both the trustworthiness of
> the authority, and the information provider are important.
>
> And in the case of RDF, the trustworthiness of the person/thing making
> a particular assertion.
>
> Think historical research, chinese whispers, and the reliability of
> witnesses...
>
> <digression-over />

FTLT.  I'm not a technologist so don't kill me if I say something stupid.
But I am into syndication, especially as it enables more people, especially
artists, to earn a living on the Net.

What about this term: brand.  Companies have it, but so do other
organizations and people.  The Internet is great b/c it let's more people
develop more measurable (and useful) brand.  Attempts to build the semantic
web now get stuck at RDF (don't they?).  The best solution right now to
applying semantics is employing human brand smartly (to filter easily).
Human brand and the ability to quantify it will be increasingly important as
the web matures, and I think the concept of quantifying brand will go
upstream to small companies, then bigger companies and organizations.  That
fits both with the semantic web and marketing/advertising metrics.

My 2 cents and probably a major digression for this thread. Sorry, out.

drew peloso

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