NWO vs. the Semantic Web.

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I've often said that NWO will be better than the current web, because it will be based on semantics, not syntax. Now, we're by far not the only ones who want this. Actually anyone with any computer science background can see the utility of the one over the other. We are also, by far, not the only ones to propose to fix things with a semantic layer. How we differ from everyone else (as far as I can see) is that we think that back-compatibility is a a bad idea and that a new system, gatewayed to the old, is a much better plan.

Still, if you want to see what the potential for a semantic system is, even in the schemes where its just tacked on to the existing infrastructure, check out this article.