Web 2.0, Social networking and mobile web were all the buzz topics amongst developers five and even ten years ago. Only now are we beginning to see the fruits of those developer labours. So what are developers working on now that will be the next big thing? - It's called "Linked Data" and it is has just begun to take shape, as identified by TBL in his latest presentation at TED:
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/#(14)
With Linked Data efforts by the BBC, Yahoo! and even pockets in Google (though they won't admit it yet), what is this thing called Linked Data and what could it mean for web managers, i.e. how can you take advantage without having to understand what a triple is or even the dreaded Semantic Web :0
See: Microformats, HTML5, GRRDL and yes even RDFa
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