Comments on: Yahoo! Tries to Out Open Facebook http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/03/yahoo-tries-to-out-open-facebook/ The Social Times covers news, analysis and insight pertaining to the social web. Learn how to brand yourself and your company via the social web. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dan Lester http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/03/yahoo-tries-to-out-open-facebook/#comment-865 Dan Lester Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:55:25 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/03/yahoo-tries-to-out-open-facebook/#comment-865 Nick, I agree that it's slightly unfortunate for Zuckerberg that he dismissed the semantic web just moments before a major announcement about it, but I really don't think Yahoo are trying to out-open Facebook as much as they are trying to out-open Google. Given that links between web pages formed the basis of Google's rise, it is quite extraordinary that they are not the ones to be be making this announcement concerning the 'next generation' of those links. You're certainly right that social networks will contribute an important part of the semantic web, but the technical challenges lie with the search engines. Yahoo's lead makes it valuable for sites like Facebook to adopt the semantic web, and they will do so easily when the search engines make meaning out of semantic web markup. Dan PS. Glad that Facebook recognised your important contribution to their ecosystem when they invited you to interview MZ. Nick,

I agree that it’s slightly unfortunate for Zuckerberg that he dismissed the semantic web just moments before a major announcement about it, but I really don’t think Yahoo are trying to out-open Facebook as much as they are trying to out-open Google.

Given that links between web pages formed the basis of Google’s rise, it is quite extraordinary that they are not the ones to be be making this announcement concerning the ‘next generation’ of those links.

You’re certainly right that social networks will contribute an important part of the semantic web, but the technical challenges lie with the search engines. Yahoo’s lead makes it valuable for sites like Facebook to adopt the semantic web, and they will do so easily when the search engines make meaning out of semantic web markup.

Dan

PS. Glad that Facebook recognised your important contribution to their ecosystem when they invited you to interview MZ.

]]> By: Tim Baxter http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/03/yahoo-tries-to-out-open-facebook/#comment-864 Tim Baxter Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:03 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/03/yahoo-tries-to-out-open-facebook/#comment-864 Should be interesting to see how quickly Mark Zuckerberg changes his thoughts about open standards. Should be interesting to see how quickly Mark Zuckerberg changes his thoughts about open standards.

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