Tim Berners-Lee, the top candidate for “inventing the internet”, noted the coming power of the semantic web in a recent interview. Berners-Lee gave the following provocative example of the kind of functionality we’ll see when our online data stream starts to link with other data, and applications are built that can leverage all this new connectivity:
“Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the same language and could share information with one another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of dots More»

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Ray Tomlinson invented email some 37 years ago when working for a tech firm in Cambridge, MA. In a recent interview with the Times of London Tomlinson said he never anticipated the spam problems that email would bring to us all.
The Times cites an estimate that suggests on average we spend 52 hours per year dealing with email spam. This is a staggering loss of productivity given that this would represent about 2.5% of a normal 40 hour work week simply killing off or otherwise filtering and dealing with spam messages.
Tomlinson, now 66 More»

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