Oh boy, people will be producing shitty microformat-riddled markup instead of plain old markup.<p>Like remember how after web standards became a hot topic, no one produced websites that only worked in Internet Explorer anymore? That was awesome.
The semantic web is going to require a heap of structured data where there isn't any right now.<p>That level of effort needs to be grassroots, but I don't see how it is going to be motivated.
Yahoo has really been impressing me in the last couple weeks. First the Open Search Platform and now this. I guess all it takes is the threat of a hostile takeover to get your productivity going.<p>I really hope they can stave off Microsoft, because I don't see the big M$ attempting to innovate like this if they took control.
I often wonder whether the semantic web is really Web 3.0. Shouldn't it be more like Web 2.5?<p>(Or maybe we should drop the revision numbers altogether?)<p>Seriously, I wonder if we shouldn't be thinking bigger. Adding "meaning" to web pages is important, but it seems like a smaller goal on the way to, I dunno, maybe the realization of The Metaverse (ala Stephenson). Or something big like that.