Flaptor

Here is a six-minute video about the Semantic Web. The idea is explained in a very simple and concise manner.

I think it’s a neat concept that would become popular if it could be made easy for authors to annotate their content as they go. One problem is that most people can’t even be bothered to tag blog posts, let alone incorporate new tags to describe the types of things they talk about. I believe that a content creation tool that could automatically discover entities such as places, artists, events or book titles would be very helpful in this respect. At Flaptor we are doing research along these lines, it looks like a field that is still in its infancy (pretty much like search engines in the nineties).

Posted in Editorial — February 17th, 2008