>is not capable of becoming a part of the web. It's a ghetto of single-purpose data
Sorry, but with the exception of screen-scrapping, 99.9% of the web IS single-purpose data.
Some people imagine a magical unicorn world where webpages inter-operate etc, but that never was the case. And I don't want my Gmail data messing with my Adobe Kuler data, my Amazon data, or my eBay data anyway.
For inter-operation, we have RSS, REST, AJAX, JSON and co. Web pages themselves, as served to the end user, are not were it should be expected to be (and never was there in the first place).
Sorry, but with the exception of screen-scrapping, 99.9% of the web IS single-purpose data.
Some people imagine a magical unicorn world where webpages inter-operate etc, but that never was the case. And I don't want my Gmail data messing with my Adobe Kuler data, my Amazon data, or my eBay data anyway.
For inter-operation, we have RSS, REST, AJAX, JSON and co. Web pages themselves, as served to the end user, are not were it should be expected to be (and never was there in the first place).