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		warrenwilkinson on March 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new class of Internet start-ups is trying to tur... I keep hearing proprietary data killing the Internet. But before these businesses (and Google, Facebook, etc) came about, the data wasn't on the web. The 'open' Internet is not dying, it never existed.

possibilistic on March 17, 2011 [–]

I never even considered that. Perhaps many of the projects that attempted to build open semantic containers for blog data, forum data, etc. were looking for a solution to a non-existant problem. (FOAF, RDFa, etc.)

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