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I have a problem with tossing around the term Semantic Web when their take is so much different than mine. The SW is about standards (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, HTTP, using URIs to represent things and concepts, etc.) and a very large number of linked data publishers who hopefully use at least some common Ontology's to define classes of businesses, information sources, people, organizations, places, events, etc., etc. and to define the properties that have ranges and domains that are these standard classes.

I take a bit of heat for being a SW proponent but I believe that long term this is a big thing. I could be wrong, though.

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Open Graph is based on RDFa and is a "standard" by which website owners can use URIs to represent a number of people, places, things and concepts. I admit that I tossed the term semantic web out there without fastidiously studying the accepted definition, but by the one you proposed I think Open Graph meets it.

You are absolutely correct that RDFa is a SW technology. I must admit some prejudice here: I went from thinking that RDFa was very useful to being skeptical when HTML5 won the standards war against XHTML. When I get back from vacation I would like to dig into what MySpace is doing; I just bookmarked your article and will look at it next week.