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I have had a similar idea about the future of the Web. Instead of navigating to websites that give you both data and presentation, how about sites that only give you data adhering to a defined convention. Then you can consume this data in a common ui and visualization platform that can merge data from various sources for you and answer questions and visualize info on the fly.


How could you build advertising into the data?


Hm sounds reasonable. There can be a standardized markup language, maybe like a simplified SGML or something?


Hahaha, right? You're just going to rediscover the same path that lead us here to start with.


What convention did you have in mind?


We can create a language for it. It could be like HTML, using tags, but extensible, and the author could declare the schema of the information.

You could even mix data from different schemas in the same document, using something like namespaces.

Like, some kind of extensible markup language, almost.


Sounds like RSS and Atom.




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