June 7, 2007 2:27 PM PDT
Video: Inside the semantic Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
ZDNet's David Berlind got some time with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Topics covered include the semantic Web (see also: Microformats), mashups, and the benefits of open standards versus proprietary development environments such as Flash and Silverlight.
"We wouldn't have had the Web," Berners-Lee says, had it started as bunch of competing solutions. And as the mobile Web gains momentum, with its closed access devices (mobile phones), we're in danger of a platform fragmentation that could put a damper on innovation. "We must keep an open interface platform. The important thing is that the standards are royalty-free." Play the video for the whole story.
Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.
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Still kind of ironic.
AL GORE had invented the internet? What kind of
disinformation is being spread around here? 8^O
Let's remember that it was an election year!!
Funny. In the mid 1970s, the "big scare" was global COOLING? Another ice age coming--remember? Oops! Americans still continued having happy lives. Darn! So let's try "global WARMING!" Hmmm ... seems to be working. No science to it. But it gets votes, gives the French something to yell at Americans about, and, most importantly, turns Al Gore (like Jimmy Carter) from a sore loser into a "misunderstood philanthropist."
The Al Gore connection comes from a speech he made some time back where he said something about sponsoring the legislation to create the internet. Somehow that turned into "Al Gore invented the internet". Undoubtedly, being the politician he is, he worded the statement to take more credit that he was likely due.
Where Sir Tim Berners-Lee comes in is that he invented the World Wide Web (WWW), which we think of as the same thing as the internet. The WWW was invented in 1991. That has more to do with the browser/weblink interface than the internet itself.