Threats to the Semantic Web

• if I can't sell it, I'm gonna keep sittin on it. I ain't gonna give it away. Ruth Brown (1989)
  • Open source, open systems, give it away!
• Don't you think that {my interest} is the correct way to build the Semantic Web?
• On the Web, there is no THE

• We must focus on "killer applications"(other panelists)
The Web created e-commerce, e-commerce didn't create the Web!
Support what people spend their time doing on the web!

• Tools that let people build their own applications (cheap and easily available) will bring a much larger payoff than applications per se
• "Build small, but viral" Tim B-L

Bottom Line: The technology is already here,
Don't blow it!