In my latest podcast I talk with Jeff Walpole, Frank Febbraro and Irakli Nadareishvili of Washington-based Phase2 Technology. We discuss the company’s work with open source solutions such as Drupal, and explore their efforts to integrate semantic technologies including Thomson Reuters’ Open Calais web service into the widely deployed content management system. Finally, we discuss the growing opportunity to make Government data more usefully available via these tools.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Tim Berners-Lee’s note on Putting Government Data online
• data.gov
• DBpedia
• Drupal
• Freebase
• Musicbrainz
• Open Calais
• Open Calais modules for Drupal
• Open Publish
• Sunlight Foundation
• Tattler
• Thomson Reuters
• Jeff Walpole’s blog post, ‘The Linked Data.gov experiment‘
• World Bank

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 14 July, 2009.

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Garlik CEO Tom Ilube is increasingly coming to represent a voice of reason in the UK’s ongoing angst about Identity, with many a hysterically gibbering Home Office official put in their place by Tom’s more reasoned words in debates on the Today programme and across the UK’s mainstream media.

As the company’s press materials note,

“Garlik, the online identity expert, was founded by Mike Harris, founding CEO of Egg plc, former Egg CIO Tom Ilube and former British Computer Society president Professor Nigel Shadbolt. As the first company to develop a web-scale commercial application of semantic technology, Garlik enables consumers to protect themselves against identity theft and financial fraud.”

According to Wikipedia, ‘Egg… is now the world’s largest internet bank,’ so effective management of identity information is clearly nothing new to Ilube and his team.

Founded in 2005, Garlik has secured some £4.5million from 3i, Doughty Hanson and Noble Venture Finance to offer products such as their DataPatrol solution for tracking sensitive personal information online, and the less ‘serious’ measure of online status, QDOS.

Behind the scenes, data is aggregated from across the open Web and various proprietary databases, and stored in Garlik’s own RDF triple store.

Now the company is releasing their triple store — 4store — under a GNU GPL license and making it available for download. Capable of scaling to handle as many as 60billion triples (perhaps at least three times more than their closest competitors), 4store has the potential to address many concerns about the scalability of triple store technology.

I took the opportunity to talk with Garlik’s Tom Ilube and 4store’s designer, Steve Harris, before the launch and the result has just been released as a podcast.

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 14 July, 2009.

In my latest podcast I talk with Mark Birbeck. We discuss the role of RDFa in bringing structure and semantics to HTML web pages, and look at effective examples from the UK Government’s Central Office of Information.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Creative Commons
• Drupal
• Dublin Core
• FOAF
• GRDDL
• HTML
• Linked Data
• Microformats
• N3
• ODF
• RDF
• RDFa
• RDF/XML
• Rule Interchange Format
• SPARQL
• W3C
• XForms
• XHTML 2.0
• XML
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 9 July, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Tom Gruber, CTO and co-founder of Siri.

We discuss Siri, and explore the whole notion of the ‘Virtual Personal Assistant,’ of which Siri is one.

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 10 June, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Andy Denmark, co-founder and VP for Development at TripIt.

We discuss the company’s approach to enriching travel and itinerary information for their users, and consider the implications of a growing interest in structured data across the Web.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Dopplr
• EventBrite
• FlightTrack Pro
• GeoNames
• Google Geocode API
• Google Maps API
• Google Social Graph API
• Go Airport Shuttles
• Hertz
• HotWire
• LinkedIn
• Marriott
• Microformats
• OAuth
• OpenTable
• OpsWare
• Plaxo
• RDFa
• TripIt
• TripIt API
• TripIt Pro Service
• Virgin America
• XHTML
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 4 June, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Stephanie Lemieux, a Senior Consultant at Earley & Associates.

We discuss the role of taxonomy and folksonomy in the Enterprise, and consider some of Stephanie’s ideas with respect to the value of a hybrid approach enabled by semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Ann Arbor District Library
• Connectbeam
• Gartner Hype Cycle
• How Buildings Learn
• Hybrid Approaches to Taxonomy & Folksonomy; Stephanie’s paper at the Semantic Technology Conference
• IBM Dogear
• Linked Data
• Meaning Of A Tag (MOAT) project
• Newsgator
• Sharepoint
• WordNet
• ZigTag

This conversation was recorded on Friday 29 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Erik Nemeth, a Senior Data Specialist at the Getty Research Institute.

We discuss Erik’s ideas on the ways in which discipline-specific databases need to evolve to remain competitive in the discovery of scholarly literature.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Erik’s paper abstract at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference
• Getty Research Institute
• Google Scholar
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 26 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Robin Johnson, CEO of FT Search. Part of Pearson’s Financial Times Group, FT Search recently launched the beta of newssift.com, a search engine geared towards the needs of those seeking to understand businesses and the environment within which they operate.

We discuss newssift, and some of the practical issues involved in delivering timely and reliable business intelligence.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bloomberg
• Dow Jones
• Economist
• Factiva
• Financial Times
• Google News
• Interactive Data Corporation
• Lexalytics
• Media Cloud project, from Harvard’s Berkman Center
• Mergermarket Group
• Measures that Matter (server unavailable?)
• Nothing but Net (PDF)
• Nstein
• New York Times
• ReelTwo
• Sift of the Day
• Thomson Reuters
• Wall Street Journal
• Yahoo! Finance

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 28 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Wendy Mars, European Director for Data Centres & UCS at Cisco.

We discuss Cisco’s recent announcement of the Unified Computing System (UCS), which sees a company perhaps best known for network hardware move toward providing the components of a fully fledged data centre fit for the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cisco
• Morgan Stanley
• ThruPoint
• Unified Computing System (UCS)
• Unified Service Delivery (USD)
• VMware (and my podcast with Reza Malekzadeh)

This conversation was recorded on Friday 15 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Reza Malekzadeh, Senior Director of Products & Marketing at VMware.

We talk about virtualisation in general and VMware specifically, and explore the implications of last month’s announcement of vSphere 4; “the industry’s first operating system for building the internal Cloud.”

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 3Tera
• Appistry
• Cisco
• Citrix
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
• EMC
• Hypervisor
• Microsoft
• NetApp
• Parallels
• VMware
• VMware Fusion
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vMotion
• VMware vSphere
• Xen

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 7 May, 2009.

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