The Machine is Us/ing us -- the youtube video...

A nice video on how web 2.0 faciliates separating data from formatting, and how we can simply transfer/read data from one format into another by keeping the two (content and form) separate. I guess the important point here is that is helps in adding more semantic value to the data, and that's what most of the mashups today exploit.

This also relates to the problem I'd mentioned in one of my earlier blogs -- about photo organization, and tagging photos and such. The amount of data has been growing at a very fast pace, and the onus of organizing it is kind of left to the user. I guess moving forward, it will become more automated/AI ish -- the Web 3.0 :) Ofcourse, data ownership/privacy becomes an important problem too.

Changing tracks, it's amazing how videos are also becoming commonplace now, and in fact can serve as a very powerful medium for HR to convey the company plans, directions, and ideologies. I've never posted a youtube video, but will probably do so before this class ends :)