[cwilkes]

Triplestores are defiantly cool; I used one once where I put in our user's birthdays and took a public ally available TS dump (I think it was from dbpedia) of celebrities and matched them up saying things like "hey you share a birthday with X"

What was cool about that was that I didn't have to know how to get their info nor what format it was in, provided that they followed some standard namespaces.

Look up JSON-LD while you are at it. This method can be extended to the IoT and then we will get some interesting outcomes.