I am Brandon Werner, a Program Manager at Microsoft. I love good friends, good coffee, and good ideas shared around a room. I work for Microsoft helping build the next true application platform in the cloud. Yes it's as cool as it sounds.
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"knowledge miners" such as required and promised by the new class of NUI interfaces will finally lead to what has so far been an elusive goal: the markup of the web for ontological processing of the web through semantic means. It will do this by adding to content creators and data providers something that has so far lacked in the purely academic realms of the semantic web: a profit motive.