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by garyjob 2813 days ago
Its heartening to know that more and more folks are starting to share the vision of web as Tim Berners Lee by starting such projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Global_Graph

The tag line of this project is similar in fashion to the following projects which I have came across.

https://www.import.io/

https://getdata.io/

https://data-miner.io/

https://www.apify.com/

I am definitely looking forward to seeing more projects like these which will be helpful in transitioning us from Web2.0 to Web3.0

I think the main hurdle we face in transitioning the web we know today to the vision behind all these projects is companies that have already aggregated huge volumes of data. (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Angelist, CrunchBase, Yelp)

They are now doing their best to protect their data to secure their competitive moat. This has the effect of preventing data from being utilized in other ways than was originally intended.

I did write a post about this topic before around 3 months ago as well..

https://medium.com/@garyjob/the-web-is-a-giant-graph-databas...