Friday, July 16, 2010

Google buys Metaweb

If there was any previous doubt about whether 2010 will be known as the year that the Semantic Web came of age, this acquisition seals the deal.

I wonder if my life would be different if I had listened to my wife's advice and walked up to Danny Ayers at sci foo in 2008 and asked for a job... His three word intro "just, an, engineer" still inspires me.

Well done Danny and friends!

1 comments:

Benjamin Good said...

Alright you private naysayers.. Being acquired isn't necessarily a good thing (I think it is in this case..) and yes, the only different between this year and the last 10 years for the semantic web is that this is a much bigger year for hype and publicity - but, like it or not tech-people, publicity ~is important!