The phrase "Web of Things" was coined by Kevin Ashton, likely in 1999 as the title of a company presentation he made at his place of employment, Proctor & Gamble. During his time there, Ashton came up with the idea of putting a RFID tag on each lipstick and having them talk with a radio receiver on the shelf to track gross sales and stock and sign when restocking was needed. He posits that such data...