| Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business |  | Author: David Siegel
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The first clear guide to the Semantic Web and its upcoming impact on the business world
Imagine that, in 1992, someone handed you a book about the future of something called the World Wide Web. This book claimed that through a piece of software called a "browser", which accesses "web sites", the world economy and our daily lives would change forever. Would you have believed even 10 percent of that book? Did you take advantage of the first Internet wave and get ahead of the curve?
Pull is the blueprint to the next disruptive wave. Some call it Web 3.0; others call it the semantic web. It's a fundamental transition from pushing information to pulling, using a new way of thinking and collaborating online. Using the principles of this book, you will slash 5-20 percent off your bottom line, make your customers happier, accelerate your industry, and prepare your company for the twenty-first century. It isn't going to be easy, and you don't have any choice. By 2015, your company will be more agile and your processes more flexible than you ever thought possible.
The semantic web leads to possibilities straight from science fiction, such as buildings that can order their own supplies, eliminating the IRS, and lawyers finally making sense. But it also leads to major changes in every field, from shipping and retail distribution to health care and financial reporting.
Through clear examples, case studies, principles, and scenarios, business strategist David Siegel takes you on a tour of this new world. You'll learn:
-Which industries are already ahead.
-Which industries are already dead.
-How to make the power shift from pushing to pulling information.
-How software, hardware, media, and marketing will all change.
-How to plan your own strategy for embracing the semantic web.
We are at the beginning of a new technology curve that will affect all areas of business. Right now, you have a choice. You can decide to start preparing for the exciting opportunities that lay ahead or you can leave this book on the shelf and get left in the dust like last time.
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The Semantic-Web is Coming January 5, 2010
Holger Buerger (San Francisco)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book is full of great information on how the Semantic Web will shape the next generation of the web in which we will stop pushing information but rather pull the information from the various product or service provider.
I was looking for something that explains the Semantic Web more from a strategic rather then a technical perspective. This book really helped me to understand how the Semantic Web can be applied. There are numerous real-live examples. From shipping products to health-care, tax, real estate, financial data (XBRL), search & security - everywhere you will find examples of businesses that already use or transition to the Semantic-Web.
This book was a great read and I highly recommend it for everyone interested in this topic.
Thanks,
HB
Important, challenging book May 8, 2010
Philip Simon (Caldwell, NJ)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book isn't easy to read because it challenges so many assumptions and current practices. That's not to say that it's not important. On the contrary, the industries and examples covered in Siegel's book run the gamut. Relatively recent ones such as search will be transformed, as will more established ones such as the law. Via the semantic web, future work required by lawyers will involve actual legal interpretation and analysis, not administrative activities for which I'm being grossly overcharged.
Sound far-fetched? Perhaps. But it's coming and it's going to change the web as we know it, not to mention how we work and live.
Another example Siegel also cites is the failure of many "knowledge management" systems. Most were, at best, ultimately incomplete for one simple reason: they depended upon typically overworked people entering updates and information into them. That's hardly a recipe for success.
The solution is the concept of an ontology, something enabled by the semantic web. At a high level, an ontology automates the learning process for systems, allowing for a comprehensive and commonly understood set of assumptions, facts, and descriptions. This obviates the need for anyone to manually update projects and repositories of information. Using ontologies takes care of that for us.
I had to put this book down often because of the consequences of what Siegel was writing. That doesn't happen often with me. This is my favorite book of the last five years.
A book written to be used June 5, 2010
B. Mulder (Amsterdam, NH Netherlands)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book contains some key ideas for now and the next decade of change drive by technology. Of course today's solutions will change, get new names and new ways of problem solving. However, if you distill the real gems out of it, you'll be ready to participate in this wave. The ideas reinforced my own and put them under the right heading, one of them is the reversal of the business-customer relationship. Of course you can say that is how it should be, but it probably never was, because the tools weren't there. Today the tools emerge with the web and we decide what works and what doesn't.
If you are starting a business this is a good guidance on what to expect, it even contains some very interesting ideas, like the bookstore of the future. If you already have a business it's a good pack of scenarios that you can use to prepare and negate the possible risks to your case, or better yet, benefit from Pull. That's where the title of the review comes from, just put it into practice with the means you have or can gather, and you or your business will be part of the change.
The future of books, libraries, and information organization January 10, 2010
Bookman (Tennessee)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What impressed me the most about this book was the detailed discussion about libraries. He shows an in dept knowledge of how information is and will be organized on the web. Anyone whose business involves the organization and dissemination of information should read this book. I also think that it would be of great interest to librarians and those in the book business. Also, I think that entrepreneurs looking for business opportunities would be interested in this realistic forecast.
Semantic Web for Execs and Investors January 22, 2010
Dave Mccomb (Ft Collins, CO USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book for getting a wider audience involved in the Semantic Web. It is very readable and compelling. It's not technical. It doesn't say how this technology is going to work, it describes what the impact is going to be. Rather than a weakness I think this is it's strength, it makes the conclusions very accessible.
The danger of not being technical is the danger of not getting it right, or missing the point, or describing a future that just isn't on the drawing boards. But Siegel has avoided this danger. I've been working with this technology for nearly ten years, and I think his conclusions are valid, and his predictions realistic. And he is right, this will usher in a huge change in perspective about eve3n what a computer system is, let alone how they will interrelate.
This really answers the question: "what are we going to do with this cool technology?" and as such it has two great audiences: 1) the executives and investors who may be getting their first introduction to the field, and 2) the technologists working in the field, who sometimes lose sight of the bigger picture.
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