Whilst in my spare time I'm literally cramming to take in all the new technologies on the web and learn how to use them all, in working hours even the meatiest of projects involves old skills learned years ago; and worse, the common projects listed everywhere are little more than install X CMS, with Y Plugins and Z Template + a couple of tweaks.
Much of the work has been dumbed down to repetitive, narrow scoped projects that really take little to no "developer knowledge".
I'm sitting here racking my brain, how to find a way to spend 2010 learning further and putting all these good things in to practise? I'd love to spend a good chunk of the year piecing together all these new tech's to create something great; and preferably with some of the ultra skilled developers I know - the scope is incredible, the boundaries are virtually limitless, and moreover, the technologies are there for the picking!
Surely, somewhere, there is a business man sitting racking his brain, fed up with the same old sites every one has, aware of all these new techs, great API's, and with the notion that something great can be created; posting job offers and hunting down the right developers for the task?
I just can't grasp that with all the forward thinking companies and people out there pushing boundaries, that nobody is wanting to take advantage of that and tie them all together.
So here's the problem; how to pair the two? how do we match up to the right companies & businesses. In fact.. how do I find the right people who want to exploit all of this?
Link up the goodies available from the semantic web, with the tech advances in streaming technologies, via a whole host of API's, using the latest languages to target multiple platforms; polish it all off with the latest in graphical interfaces and develop a realtime monster application to be proud of.
I'd love to list the tech's involved, but the list would be 100+; and more to the point - without a set project description to mesh this all together, we just don't know. But.. anything is possible.
Developers can you think of a way to break the masses in to the next generation of the internet?
Companies & business men, can you think of some projects to get us there?
The next stage of the net is sooo close, yet so far, all we need to do is grab it and go - I know there's a lot of forward thinkers that read this blog.. rack you're brains for the good of us all!
Regards :)
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Hi Nathan,
I'm very impressed by the efforts you are making to get OpenLink on the rails.
Till now I have not found any other software which can provide a same stresstest level. (another famous provider of databases is lacking the knowledge and drive for semantic technologies).
I have the intention to apply semantic web techniques to controlled data.
Since I'm no IT-person, but a person who had the opportunity to apply IT technology in business circumstances, I have no other requirements to the used technology than performance.
Therefor I hope OpenLink may be successfull.
I have approached in the recent past hundreds of financial institutions with the advantages of sem tech.Very few, near to non gave response. The least we can say is that finance is an industry in which knowledge representation and transformation in applications which would be interesten in all technologies at hand. I'm affraid that from business persons (speaking for my own compartment thus) the ability to control business processes is not sufficiently present. This means the great benefit is not recognised.
Therefor I try to develop a showcase, which will eventually grow as a cloud service, with as target the finance industry. That's where my knowledge lies.
I took some unpaid leave for 1 year in the hope to realize an embryo in that short time-span.
On the website you will find out I went from business needs, search for solutions, coming to knowledge representation techniques to knowledge implementation techniques.
This is not the common way, mostly I meet technically highly skilled people who are fascinated by the technique and their possibilities.
In the development process, I thus meet top-down implementation approaches, while I've got a down/top approach. As known, a meeting of both is the best approach.
After looking at the website, you feel interested in the industry and thoughts, we could evaluate if our collaboration could result in something more concrete.
We could e.g. draw a business plan and look after some financing. Continuing without external financing has the benefit of independence...
Feel free to let know your feelings about the idea.
We are today not many I'm affraid and sometimes I feel preaching in the desert (but remain optimistic).