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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:32:50PM -0400, Mike.Champion@S... wrote: > "Misses" include vertical industry vocabularies, "intelligent" document > authoring (most XML docs are created with Word or Frame), and the Semantic > Web. I attended that session, here's some background on it which illuminates that other post. Tim's "misses" were not the things he thought were disasters, rather more those that he felt could reap the best advantage from XML but that had *yet* failed to emerge. Actually, Tim gave a lot more attention to talking about these three than most other things he mentioned. I think he overlooked the success of some existing vertical vocabularies, but what he was calling a miss was the idea that these were going to be a widespread success--clearly a lot of folk just do things ad-hoc with good results. Likewise, XML authoring, the state of which we all lament. And as for the Semantic Web, Tim actually expressed a good deal of belief in it, but gave it something more like 10 years to come to fruition. He urged the audience if they were "young and energetic" to throw themselves to working on the SW, as he said there'd be a "lot of money" to be made there ultimately. -- Edd
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