Mobility Agents

The goal of the Semantic Web is to migrate Web content from (only) human readable to machine readable and processable. However, reaching critical mass is hard. To be useful a big part of the current content of the Web needs to be enriched with machine-readable metadata that describes the content. Moreover, international user/developer communities may never agree on a common standard of the metadata needed. Finally, the Semantic Web is being developed with no end-user development in mind.

What is wrong with the Web?

Wrong Modality: Blind users cannot read textual descriptions. Automatic text-to-speech interfaces may be able to verbally convey the textual contents of a Web page to users, but if the Web page is formatted for visual access, the sequential presentation of information as speech may be unintelligible or inefficient.
Wrong Language: Crucial explanatory text may be provided in the wrong language. Less than 15% of U.S. Web sites contain Spanish translations .
Wrong Nomenclature: Information may be expressed in an unfamiliar measurement system. The translation of Celsius to Fahrenheit or kilometers to miles, while scientifically trivial, may present a serious impediment to many users.
Wrong Time: Information may be correct, relevant and readable, but presented at the wrong time. Stock information, for instance, is most useful when presented in real time.
Wrong Format: Information can look great on a large computer monitor, but be completely unsuitable for small information devices such as PDAs and cell phones

In contrast to the Syntactic and Semantic Web the Pragmatic Web is not about form or meaning of information but about how information is used.

The Pragmatic Web does not aim to replace Semantic Web.

It can ALREADY use the Syntactic Web

It is about providing tools to end-users!