Leveraging Business Connections

As we continue to study the evolution of the social web for business evidence is all around us. While previously indicating that much of what we had found indicates the early stages of adoption additional evidence is beginning to appear which indicate a much larger comprehension of the opportunities for the social web to add significant value to the “business of business”.One of the benefits of a networked world is that friends, associates and like minded individuals feed one thinking and perspectives with references from around the net. Michael Pokocky was kind enough to send us the reference below:

The December 07 Edition of Scientific America just published an article titled “The Semantic Web In Action: Corporate applications are well under way, and consumer uses are emerging” By Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann and Susie Stephens

“Six years ago in this magazine, Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila unveiled a nascent vision of the Semantic Web: a highly interconnected network of data that could be easily accessed and understood by any desktop or handheld machine. They painted a future of intelligent software agents that would head out on the World Wide Web and automatically book flights and hotels for our trips, update our medical records and give us a single, customized answer to a particular question without our having to search for information or pore through results.”

Jay also is a contributing writer to The National Networker. You can visit his page "What Say You?".