Web "creator" Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called on governments, scientists and businesses to work to ensure the Web remains true to its original purpose... "The development of the Web will have major social, economic and political implications for our future," said Sir Tim. "At its core must be a commitment to maintain the principles of openness as a platform for the sharing of information," he added.

Great primer on the Yahoo! SearchMonkey developer tool by Christian Heilmann, that allows web developers to embed search results for their web pages with additional information. You might now ask how SearchMonkey can affect your life as a web developer. The answer is: as much as you want it to. SearchMonkey is coming and Yahoo! will allow all of their hundreds of millions of end users to add applications ... Read full entry

Preparing your sites for the data web Web 3.0, or the data web is on the way, and David Peterson thinks now would be a good time to start preparing for it. This coming change is huge. It means a new way of thinking of your websites, your information, your feeds, everything. Every piece of information can and should be able to hook into the data web. With Yahoo! thinking of ... Read full entry

Semantic Web or: why Yahoo! resisted Microsoft's takeover David Peterson speculates on why Yahoo! rejected the recent Microsoft takeover bid. With the recent announcement from Yahoo and subsequent flurry of posts that followed, something became clear to me. Yahoo! didn't accept Microsoft's offer because it had an ace card up its sleeve. Semantic technology. With this sort of tech, who needs Microsoft or even ... Read full entry

Google could be superseded, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee talks about the rise of the Semantic web and the next phase of the web's development, which apparently doesn't leave much room for current search engine technology. "Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web," Mr Berners-Lee said. "Imagine if two completely separate things - your bank statements and your calendar ... Read full entry

Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics The semantic web is four years old today! Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today's web rather than starting from scratch or waiting for a "purer" ... Read full entry