{"id":26,"date":"2004-08-02T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=26"},"modified":"2004-08-02T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T22:52:22","slug":"google-the-semantic-web-and-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/08\/02\/google-the-semantic-web-and-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, the Semantic Web, and Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just read a great piece on Google by Paul Ford called “How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web”<\/a>, which essentially describes how Google could – in theory – piece together the semantic web through currently available technologies. I got there through someone’s Blog, but damned if I can remember whose. Although that does sound like a Bloglines challenge of sorts – see I can reconstruct my path from the link trail…but no, too much to do. <\/p>\n

Anyway, his notion of Google outflanking Amazon and Ebay is itself an interesting one – not to mentioned delivered in fine humorous fashion – but it’s not, to me anyway, the most interesting implication as I think the semantic web<\/a> described therein needs a slight dose of the architecture of participation<\/a>. More on that in a later post. <\/p>\n

The bigger concern for me here is privacy. Privacy – like its close friend security – often comes at the expense of convenience. And while it may well be inconvenient to have separate marketplaces for commercial and second hand goods, there may counter-intuitively be some value in it as well. I’m not sure I want Amazon – or anyone else – to have a consolidated view of my identity and purchasing patterns. Acxiom is bad enough. I’m just as happy to keep eBay, Amazon, and Google separate. Particularly given the decision handed down here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m all for the semantic web, mind you. In fact a semantic web type construction called a policy engine is a key service identified in an upcoming compliance publication of ours. But the implications must be carefully thought out. I trust Google, but absolute power as they say…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read a great piece on Google by Paul Ford called “How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web”, which essentially describes how Google could – in theory – piece together the semantic web through currently available technologies. I got there through someone’s Blog, but damned if I can remember whose. Although that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}