From the true inventor of the WWW, Tim Berners Lee talks at the 2009 TED conference about the importance of sharing linked data for the new horizons of the semantic Web. He challenges all individuals, enterprises and government entities to open their raw data sources to the Web. Tim believes that the next generation of the Web will be the linking of information from open data sources to correlate connections and relationships with objects and even concepts.

Whow! What does that mean? Let me try to give an expanded example. Say you want to know where your friend Jon Webb is in Dallas, Texas. Well, by inputting Jon Webb, Dallas Texas, Location you might be able to find that Jon is using the bathroom at his "place of work" found by his AT&T GPS phone in his pocket, accessed by the systematic/ blueprints of the building maintenance management office. No more "I can't take your call right now because I'm on the other line".

There are a whole list of arguments about the open usage of linked data ranging from the reliability of that data to the protection and privacy of information. Weather your for or against the movement of the semantic web it continues to go forward.

I've got to go update my facebook page. Enjoy the video.