I just read an interesting blog post by Richard MacManus, “10 Ideas For Web of Data Apps” that explains the fundamentals of how people generate ideas for new applications.
My guess is that all examples described in the blog came from people combining what they saw on multiple websites into an idea of how to leverage the data in a new, valuable application.
However there is a problem here!
It’s not a given that all that data is available as Linked or Open data. In other words, not all data necessarily has a documented method of programmatic access as, for example, an XML feed, RSS feed, or a REST or SOAP service. Without this programmatic access, no existing application or Mashup builder can get to the data which prevents these great ideas from ever materializing. WHAT A BUMMER!
More often than not the data you need to combine into your great new application idea is only available in a web browser. This means you have to either drop the idea or settle for a subset of the data available with documented programmatic access.
Wouldn’t it be cool if all the data you see in a web browser were always available?
Well that is what Web Data Services is all about. Check more of this blog to learn more.
As always, please send me your comments, my email is sa at kapowtech.com
By: Stefan Andreasen 
