Web sites/applications just try to be as user-friendly as possible. Unfortunately, stuff like RSS/Atom is not user-friendly compared to Follow/Like/Friend. HTTP GET ist not user-friendly compared to AJAX page changes. Providing open interfaces and standards is additional work, without obvious benefits for companies and most users don't care.
This semantic web dream you talk about--what is it? Nobody is selling this to ordinary people. All i see of "Semantic Web" guys, are baroque XML snippets (FOAF, RDF, etc) and mumbo jumbo about namespaces and ontologies.
Web sites/applications just try to be as user-friendly as possible. Unfortunately, stuff like RSS/Atom is not user-friendly compared to Follow/Like/Friend. HTTP GET ist not user-friendly compared to AJAX page changes. Providing open interfaces and standards is additional work, without obvious benefits for companies and most users don't care.
This semantic web dream you talk about--what is it? Nobody is selling this to ordinary people. All i see of "Semantic Web" guys, are baroque XML snippets (FOAF, RDF, etc) and mumbo jumbo about namespaces and ontologies.