On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, James Weinheimer <
weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I have managed in a very few cases to get someone to understand how
> the subject headings work, they ask: Why don't Google and Yahoo work
> this way? That question made me feel great! I think that people today
> would absolutely love that kind of "new" and "innovative" experience
> that they can find nowhere else on the web. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft,
> Apple and the other "information companies" will never offer such access.
>
I don't know that this is necessarily true. If, say, the data we make
available to Google, Yahoo, MS, et al is well marked up schema.org,
JSON-LD, rdfa-lite, etc., AND there are sensible relationships between
things (that are machine parsable) I see no reason that these companies
wouldn't take advantage of it. Sure they might need a profit motive to
implement something, but given the fact that Google has Play (which
sells/rents books, movies, music, etc.) it's not terribly difficult to make
the leap.
The key is finding ways to leverage this data so it's profitable for all
parties.
-Ross.
Received on Fri Aug 02 2013 - 14:37:58 EDT