:: Sir Tim and the Semantic Web ::

As this Technology Review article notes, Tim Berners-Lee did not gain a lot of financial advantage from his inventions of the World-Wide Web but has certainly been reaping status and other things as a result of it.

The truly notable thing though about this article is more the definition it provides of Sir Tim's latest baby, the Semantic Web. While I've heard a colleague extol the virtues of the semantic web for a few years now, I never really understood it that well or its advantages until I read this article.

Rather than botch my own explanation of it here, I encourage you to go read the article and learn about it and Sir Tim yourself.