Maounis Frangoulis

There is a major activity of online cloud services to Merge information that can easily extract the core info from a set of data. This is by far the most interesting result of the new economy by now.

You can see two of the most interesting examples here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (It actually extracts knowledge from data on the web in real time.  Pretty cool.)