I did an IAP on LinkedData at MIT and one of the session's was given by Sir Tim Berners Lee, creator of Internet and now creator of Semantic Web.

LinkedData has amazing power and capability,the only challenge is adopting it. NYTIMES has all its articles on Linkeddata, DBPedia is an RDF version of Wikipedia.

On the other side all the companies are opening their API's, linked data has a similar vision of data mashups. These two overlaps in few aspects.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.htm...