The web has taken off in ways unexpected to those who designed it and technologies are being used in new and exciting ways. For the Semantic Web we have technologies created by researchers and panels such as RDF and OWL designed to help create ontologies and describe information. While these are certainly useful tools for those who need them, how many people truly need such powerful tools? Does the success of ideas such as microformats suggest that perhaps this is the wrong direction and a simpler approach would be better?
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