As regular readers will remember, this 'Linked Data' is the same stuff being described by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as;"the Web done right. Written by Paul Miller, Contributor Sept. 22, 2008 at 9:15 p.m. PT ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data.

The Semantic Web, the long-ballyhooed concept to make it easier to find pertinent information and link varying types of data on the Web, is finally closing in on critical mass, W3C officials ...

Linked Open Data builds on standard Web technology such as HTTP, RDF, ... and understanding semantic markup and linked open data is becoming more and more a best practice for SEOs.

[LF: the term Linked Data refers to a specific set of best practices for working with Semantic Web (RDF) data; the term Linked Open Data refers to Linked Data that is freely available on the Web ...

Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and others not only help us create masses of data, they also make it available to developers to access. So "Big Data Analytics" has become a major growth industry.

It also can be used for mashing up Web 2.0 data. The Semantic Web, the W3C said, ... “We use Semantic Web technologies to help us link to lots of information about the drug targets,” she said.

As more people create their data in this format, the data web can increase returns that benefit the whole society. Co-created social graph and linked data layer The core principles of Web3 are ...