In my latest podcast I talk with Kevin Merritt, CEO of Seattle-based Socrata.

We discuss the company’s approach to ‘social data discovery,’ and consider ways in which these techniques might be applied to the wealth of data emerging from Government in the United States and elsewhere.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• BigTable
• Aneesh Chopra
• data.gov
• Frazier Technology Ventures
• Freebase
• Vivek Kundra
• Kevin Merritt’s blog post, ‘Data.gov Needs to be a Community Effort‘
• Morgenthaler Ventures
• Tim O’Reilly, and his recent post on ‘Government as Platform‘
• SimpleDB
• Socrata
• Sunlight Labs, and my podcast with David James

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 16 September, 2009.

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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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