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The Web in five minutes

This excellent (in content and style) short video by Michael Wesch is making the rounds. It perfectly captures the essence of the Web at its state circa 2007.

I’d love to see this extended with another 30 seconds devoted to RDF. Or maybe not, because RDF on the Web is still more a vision than a reality, but we are getting there …

(And a whacky prediction: This kind of fast, visual propaganda flick will be the PowerPoint of the future.)

(via Christian Katzenbach)

(Oops, I got Michael’s name wrong, now fixed.)

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3 Responses to “The Web in five minutes”

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    February 5th, 2007 at 2:18 am

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    February 5th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

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