Grimy, streetwise and absolutely fearless, 50 Cent has released what very much sounds like the first Semantic Web rap album. Want proof? Here we go.

First, there's a track, causing lyrical warfare already, called "Piggy Bank" (lyrics). Alright, you might argue that this can't be about that Piggy bank. Well, then there's another song, "Hate it or love it". It clearly has the following line:

« .. put 'em in my FOAF file!»

Wanna hear it? ♫ put 'em in my foaf file.

Yeah ;-)

(Spotter: Andreas)

If you haven't yet, you should read Eric Miller's recent presentation titled "The Semantic Web is Here", citing real-world examples by Nokia, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Adobe and Oracle.
Oracle as an RDF DB? OMG!

I particularly liked the slide "Observations and Lessons Learned":

• (Smart) Data is (increasingly) King
• Planing for evolution (data, services, partners, etc.) is cost effective
• Applying "open" solutions to "closed" problems is cost effective
• Quicker time / services / products to market

I hear there also was a /very/ exciting VC panel at that conference..