I've come across an interesting article on The New York Times web site that talks about Facebook employing RDF metadata for the Semantic web: http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/07/02/02readwriteweb-facebook--the-semantic-web-12886.html.
Facebook is using a very simple version of RDF, but maybe this is the beginning of more of a movement toward the Semantic Web. Although Facebook making a move in this direction is a huge step, I wonder if the Semantic web really will come to fruition -- there is a lot of metadata that must be entered which may take away from the absolute simplicity of the Web as it stands now.
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