Tim Berners-Lee Discusses the "Semantic Web"

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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

March 12, 2008

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The Times Online has an extensive interview today with Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the world wide web) on his view of the "semantic web" in which data sharing across the web is possible among any application.  The concept is certainly intriguing, and offers amazing possibilities to go far beyond what we can do today via mash-ups, but at the same time I wonder about the security and management implications. It's likely we'll see an ongoing battle between spammers trying to push their information into the semantic web, and application developers trying to create intelligent and adaptable filters.

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Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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