Google, Twitter and Facebook build the semantic web

A TRULY meaningful way of interacting with the web may finally be here, and it is called the semantic web. The idea was proposed over a decade ago by Tim Berners-Lee, among others. Now a triumvirate of internet heavyweights - Google, Twitter and Facebook - are making it real. The defining characteristic of the semantic web is that information should be stored in a machine-readable format. Crucially, that would allow computers to handle information in ways we would find more useful, because they would be processing the concepts within documents rather than just the documents themselves. via Google, Twitter and Facebook build the semantic web - tech - 02 August 2010 - New Scientist.