Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

Paul Ford uses a fictional story from five years in the future to explain the semantic web: August 2009: How Google Beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web.

For more info about the Semantic Web concept:

• W3C Semantic Web
• SemanticWeb.Org
• The Semantic Web: 1-2-3
• RDFWeb and FOAF Developer Site

I suspect that Paul’s story is ispired by Perhaps Paul’s story inspired some actual events…