Something that began as innocent and informal socializing among college students has turned into a very serious platform, for e-commerce. Facebook is becoming a viable business model, still in its infancy, granted, but nevertheless very promising. Let’s look at the big picture.

Ever since I was introduced to the Semantic Web back in 2000, the idea was to help computers better understand connections and relationships between objects and data that were being presented on the Web. The vision is to put data in context, relate it and organize it in ways that only humans can currently do, so computers can then inter-relate information from multiple sites and perform more useful functions in an automatic way.