Last week, the W3C announced the formal approval of the SPARQL Query language for RDF, which could redefine the way the web works, turning web-based data into an organized, structured, universally accessible source of information.

I'm super-excited. I think it's gonna be the "next version" of the WWW (Web 3.0).

What do you guys think?

Dude...I think I know you. If you're who I think you're are, you used to be on another board but I forget who you are exactly.

Your name looks familiar to me, too.

I remember now! You were The Game on WDF, right?! Long time, man, how have you been?

Originally Posted by smoseley

which could redefine the way the web works, turning web-based data into an organized, structured, universally accessible source of information.

The web? Structured?

Dammit, I knew it was you! Forrest, don't let the big corporate speak Steve uses throw you...this guy really knows his stuff. He once did this whole clock/gradient website thing without using a single graphic (I think he called it 0-GFX) and it totally rocked the party that rocked the body.

Steve: I kind of forgot about WDF. I got wrapped up in so much client stuff that it sort of got put on the back burner, and by the time I got unwrapped I couldn't remember the URL anymore (and since I never bookmark anything, it was pretty well lost to me).

How you been, man?

Hah!!! 0-GFX!!! Still online, too: http://www.transio.com/0-gfx.htm

Forgive the ancient coding style... it was made about 5 years ago!

Adam, I've been great... I have lots of business development going on. Been doing some really cool custom app development for some web startups. Also getting some Fortune 500 clients, and Friday, I'm pitching a pretty sick (and slick) Educational Software for teaching Ultrasound via a 3D emulator.

Besides that, I've got some of my own projects going on. I'm going to be making an entry into Google's Android Developer Contest - a phone-to-web streaming news service called Oculi (Latin, meaning "eyes"), and also now I'm thinking about developing a SPARQL-based web search/query engine. I have the PERFECT domain name for it (I'll give you one guess).

How are things with you?

Sounds about right for you. You never aimed small.

Let's see...busy as all hell. Hired people, went back to being indy when I couldn't teach them anything and they couldn't help me at all. Working with small businesses because I just can't do the whole corporate thing (I've become even more independent and rogue than I was before). Lots of environmental stuff, admin stuff, same as usual. My game hasn't changed much in principle in the last five years, except that I left it and rediscovered it (and don't intend to leave it again.)

So...what is this SPARQL thing of which you speak? (I know nothing of it.)

It's the wave of the future... the semantic, data-based web. Read up on it... really cool stuff!