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13 March 2009

The next Web of open, linked data: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 16:23.)

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  • John Santaferraro

    Mar 25 2009

    Tim, thanks for being such a man of vision and action. Those two qualities rarely come together. And thank you for your vision for connected data. I have been working with data, information, and business intelligence for the last 15 years. We have come a long way, but I can’t agree more that the next wave of technology is going to deliver not just connected data, but connected intelligence. It’s a vision that we share at HP. May your dream of connected data impact our world as much as your dream for connected documents did 20 years ago.

  • Justin Lowell-Bellew

    Mar 22 2009

    Frustration – tell me about it, Tim!
    I’d like to unlock some more of TED’s potential. I went to the blog and will follow-up with contact@, but how appropriate is it to seed it here, first? ;-)

    1) see my profile for #1, N/A for this talk
    2) Provide transcript of each TED talk available for download
    *3) Indicate for each talk whether the visual aspect is used much – The Bill Joy muses on what’s next… talk is a great example – it’s an interesting talk, but there’s no need to download the video. More to the point, I listen to these on the way to work. If I’m taking the bus, my visual attention is available. If I could separate those talks where video was integral, I could get more TED, more efficiently :-)
    4) create a wiki / wagn (www.wagn.org) for TED using #2 above, where interconnections between talks could be explored, similar to “If you enjoyed this, you may also enjoy…” while much more granular, at the detail level of talk content.

    Cheers,
    Justin
    p.s. Thanks for the web! :-)

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