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Wednesday, May 21, 1997 by Dave Winer.

A subject I've been getting ready to write about in DaveNet, and Simson Garfinkle beat me to it in this week's Packet column on HotWired:

http://www.hotwired.com/packet/garfinkel/97/20/index2a.html

He describes a proposal from Tim Berners-Lee, the original designer of the web, to build a model of the data behind web pages, so that scripts can walk the structure to find the products, services or information you need.

This is a very important idea. All the smart web technologists I know are interested in this now. Forget all the hand-wringing about the push wars and Java virtual machines, this is where the next boom in Internet technology is going to happen.

Read Garfinkle's piece and follow the pointers.

Dave Winer