Flickr: Leading the Way to the Semantic Future.

First, a picture for every place, and now OpenID friendly, Yahoo! is on a role providing a first class picture storage service with all the bells and whistles that matter to their users and people who use it as a service in their mashups. As I have said before, open, isn’t open on the web unless it has URI independence, or in OpenID’s case, FOAF service files. Open ID also makes great use of the VCF format and the XFN. Many more services will enable this in the future, and you can comment on Google blogs with OpenID.

Once you start seeing the vast majority of the clouds largest services becoming machine readable or semantic you can then include these features in open source clients. This will further lead to that sector becoming competitive in the race to create new innovative mashups of functionality. I’m excited to see what happens next. APML (evolution of OPML) will eventually tie in with these services I’m thinking, and we hopefully will end up being the owners of our own data.

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