Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

http://www.ted.com At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

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[liquidminds]

"this guy" is considered to be the father of the internet, for developing html and giving it away for free and is also the founder of W3-Consortium...

noone would call Bill Gates "this guy"... and he did actually invent nothing, and give away for free even less...

it's a pity, that one of the most important people of the past decades is so unknown to the world...

[Kargoneth]

That video of map updates was awesome! Looked like lightning!

[Joeri Van den Eynden]

Lol i bounced on this topic just a few days ago because it was one of the topics we can write a paper on. It's freakin amazing!!

[NeoMatudio]

Good speaker, Good talk. But I am not interested with Data.

[OsamA R. SaaDawY]

thanks about the video

[happinesson]

smoothly discussed data..data.data..all about data..

[aynradd]

raw data now! .)

[pvecchi]

Open data repurposed for good.

[roidroid]

what does he say at 1:31? it sounds like

"by clicking.... blelksalkjsadlfasdfsaldkfasjk lets get back to 2008"

[roidroid]

i hope open maps replaces the proprietary map data in GPS devices - they actually charge you for that data, and it often has errors. It's so backwards, that industry really needs to change it's holding itself back.