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By: Otov

Otov — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:38:12 +0000

I’d agree with Matt. It’s not a revolution but a successive progress = evolution.

By: Marguerite Ardito

Marguerite Ardito — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:19:16 +0000

I agree – metaweb is the perfect name. I remember 10 years ago if you used the term metadata, peoples’ (especially managers’) eyes glazed over and they tuned you out. It wasn’t until customers starting using the term that it got management attention and respect. They are finally starting to realize that metadata is what enables (empowers, even) data to be usable, reusable and automatable. It will be the same with the metaweb. Get the US government to buy in to the term (e.g. through eGov initiatives) and it will rapidly become part of the language.

By: Marguerite Ardito

Marguerite Ardito — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:19:05 +0000

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:01:33 +0000

I think Nova we will have to agree-to-disagree.
You use of the term ‘consumer’ gives it away. ‘Metaweb’ is a groovy brand name to appropriate a bunch of stuff and give it a handle to market it. Shrinkwrapping, no?
You refer to the “upcoming Semantic Web” as it was a product going to appear on our shelves “in Q2 or real soon now”.
IMHO, like I said it’s just the web: evolving, realising new and divergent channels, applications and user-experiences.
If I understood you motives perhaps for making this evolution concrete I would better understand. Is it for educating the market?

By: Nova Spivack

Nova Spivack — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:27:10 +0000

Well Matt I disagree — I think naming an evolution helps to make it concrete. In fact the Metaweb is not just “The Web” because the Web is not made up of discrete chunks of metadata that describe individual ideas. That’s what RSS and Atom and the upcoming Semantic Web is focused on. But I don’t think those terms are consumer-friendly enough. Metaweb is better.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:21:09 +0000

I think “the web” will do just fine. All of the stuff you are describing are evolving things that ulitmately enrich the meaning and utility that ‘real people’ can extract from the web.
“Naming a thing to create it” is about having a control-point, a handle on something discrete – either to spread the word about it, or draw boundaries around it to exploit it.
As you say yourself, it’s not new or discrete, it’s an evolution – not a revolution. It’s the web.

By: Jessica Lipnack

Jessica Lipnack — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 23:35:22 +0000

I agree, Nova. I remember your ranting and raving 10 years ago around our kitchen about the web. RSS (as representative of a class of technologies that let’s us launch tiny fractals into miraculous combinations) is a breakthrough the way the web was. But I ain’t so sure the word Metaweb will stick. People know what webs are, which is one reason that word made it, but what is a meta? Not familiar in common parlance.

By: HP Semantic Blogging

HP Semantic Blogging — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:24:39 +0000

Does the semantic web need a new name? I'm probably way behind the curve on this, but in case anyone hasn't seen it yet, Nova Spivick writes: "I think we should all start using the term "The M...

By: Richard Soderberg

Richard Soderberg — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:06:05 +0000

I think I like Metaweb. It fits in with the “semantic breakfast” discussion at ETcon quite nicely. Thanks for coining it; all shall be attributed to you.

By: Radio Free Blogistan

Radio Free Blogistan — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:47:07 +0000

Rebranding RSS and syndication

Your grandmother doesn’t do HTTP and she doesn’t know from XHTML. You didn’t buy her a computer so she could access SMTP and IMAP and POP. No, it took words like internet, web, and e-mail to help people who hadn’t been reading William Gibson make sense…

By: Awasu

Awasu — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:30:25 +0000

What\’s in a name?

Those of you who have been following the Echo/Pie/Atom/Whatever saga will know what I’m talking about. And so do Amy Gahran who is running a competition to find a new name for RSS and Nova Spivack who proposes a name for the revolution: The Metaweb….

By: dwh!{dezwozhere:blog}

dwh!{dezwozhere:blog} — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 07:24:41 +0000

The Metaweb

Nova Spivack writes about the Metaweb over at his Minding the Planet weblog, If RSS is ever going to go mainstream, we need a name for this movement that is more consumer-friendly than “the Blogosphere” — and also a name…

By: Contentious Weblog

Contentious Weblog — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:26:39 +0000

Interesting Discussion: Does RSS Need a New Name? Looks like I'm not the only one considering the possible benefits of giving RSS feeds a catchier, less geeky name. (Read about my contest...

By: Ks Weblog

Ks Weblog — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:58:37 +0000

Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner app of XML

Interesting… Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner app of XML Couldn’t of said it better myself (Maybe I would have added a horizontal application caveat – Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner horizontal app of XML). O…

By: Audioblog/Mobileblogging News

Audioblog/Mobileblogging News — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:27:18 +0000

Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner app of XML