SPARQL me this:
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
SELECT ?drink
WHERE { ?drink dbpedia2:bourbon "yes"@en}
(For the non-semantic webby, this is a basic semweb query for asking DBpedia for info in wikipedia about drinks with bourbon)
Today was a happy confluence of playing with Leigh Dodd's application for querying the semantic web, Twinkle, and some random Tweets and connections that led me to the wikipedia entry for a Manhattan (my parents drink "Perfect Manhattan"s) (see also the flickrwrappr page). This looks like an obvious, easy semantic web app ready to be made (if it hasn't been already): The Semantic Bartender.
With DBpedia's scrape of data from wikipedia, it'd be easy. Yes, yes, there are plenty of other online bartenders' guides out there (and if your bartender needs one, find another bar). The Semantic Bartender wouldn't replace them, but it'd make a good concept piece. If I had money to burn, I'd open "The Semantic Bar", which would openlink to info about how my bartenders prepare an Old Fashioned (is there recipe ontology out there?), some cute shots of them serving it to happy patrons (also available via DBpedia and flickrwrappr), and whatever other advertising I can come up with. The upshot would be a bartender's guide that would also direct users to places in their neighborhood where they can get the drink they're looking for in the place they're looking for it (because all the geo info would also be openlinked).
Maybe that's the upshot of a semantic web application that's waiting to happen -- one that will pull the power of the sementic web and make it available for advertisers. Some darn good developers develop the concept piece to demonstrate the potential, advertisers pony up the funding for the super-slick app and interface, and lots of RDF data is made open at the same time that it encourages other businesses to put their info on the web in openlinkable form. Everybody wins, which is what we're all lookin' for.
(BTW--did I just coin a verb "openlink"? If so, I need another Manhattan.)
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