I somehow have this urge to connect Social Media with the Semantic web. For me their romance is bound to happen. Now who would wear the pants is the big question. How would a web which is intelligent, knows a lot would give in to a medium which connects so many things or will that be the other way round?
Will the Semantic Web turn into a Social Media consultant and kind of engulf Social Media. Or both will complete each other.
Think of a possibility where I post a question in a Social Media platform, "Which is the best restaurant for Chinese food in the town?" I get lot of responses, suggestions and even location maps to reach a place. Now I am flooded with suggestions.
How Semantic Web is going to help me differently than this. If it is going to tell me what I get from Social Media platform now, then why I would use it? Is it going to tell me, " Ok you want the names of the Chinese restaurants, why not also try out some Thai restaurants in the same locations?"
I mean my point is, I want to know how Semantic Web is going to be different from what my Social Network is?
Further why I would want to know from humans about a place rather than artificial intelligence, isn't it? Experts are of the view that what we say in the social networks will have less value than what semantic networks will say about us.
The debate will continue and the romance as well.Let's hope it is in 2012.
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