In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Troy Lane Williams, CEO of stealth semantic technology startup PeoplePad. We discuss Troy’s previous position at Questia, exploring the business model and vision that saw a company working with publishers to digitise print publications in the years before Google began their digitisation effort, before turning to PeoplePad and the opportunity to offer consumer-facing applications built upon Semantic Web technologies and approaches.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• American Library Association (ALA)
• Ancestry.com
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Rod Canion
• ClearType
• DBpedia
• ebrary
• Expedia
• Brad Feld, and his Talking with Talis podcast
• Freebase
• Google Book Search
• GRDDL
• Harvard Law Review
• Danny Hillis
• JSTOR
• Kleiner Perkins
• LexisNexis
• Linking Open Data
• NetLibrary
• New York Times
• Tim O’Reilly
• Open Data Commons Licence
• OWL
• PeoplePad, and their mailing list for more info at list@peoplepad.com.
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Powerset
• Questia
• RDF
• SPARQL
• Nova Spivack, and his Talking with Talis podcast
• Twine
• Web 2.0 Summit, and coverage of the Semantic Edge and John Doerr sessions on Nodalities
• Wall Street Journal
• Westlaw

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 18 December, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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