As it happens regularly, Gartner Group has published recently a list of what's hype in their opinion nowadays. There's nothing surprising in this because hype is their business.
Not too much surprise is in there, because the majority of the list contains stuff that's the re-invention of something that's been existing for long time. For example, Event Driven Architecture is in my eyes exactly what Message Oriented Middleware is about, like as you all know, today's other popular architecture, SOA has also not been a radical invention, but rather a HTTPized, microsoftized, commoditized, derogated CORBA (OK, I know it's more than this and it is really something that's useful but if you are honest to yourself you should admit that actually that's it).
However, there's something in the list that is worth to spend some words: semantic markup languages. In other words, the Semantic Web. Since the famous article of Tim Berners Lee in 2003, it's been popping up from time to time, because some people (maybe AI folks or the ones who find it sounding interesting or who knows) push it. However, although more than 3 years have elapsed, actually no-one uses it and we can see no real application. You may be asking why. I can tell you the answer: this stuff has no use. The web is free and unstructured by definition and by its nature and whoever wants to systematize it (you can call it catalog or semantics or whatever) will definitely fail. That's why the web won over Gopher (if you remember the good old times) or why Google won over Yahoo!. I hardly can understand why Gartner believes it will "reach mainstream in five to 10 years".
That's a bubble. Probably that's where trend ends and hype starts.
Here's the link.

 

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