In our latest podcast I talk with Jeff Hardy, Vice President of Business Operations at SmarterTools. We talk about SmarterTools and discuss a process of due diligence that the company pursued late in 2008 whilst seeking a Cloud hosting provider to support their latest product.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• Cloud Computing – Challenges, Benefits and the Future blog post
• Mike Culver, Amazon
• EF Data Corp.
• Google App Engine
• Honeywell
• Parallels Hosting Summit
• PubCon
• Rackspace
• Salesforce
• Seeing Through the Fog – The Current State of Cloud Computing from an Independent Development Perspective presentation (PDF)
• SmarterTools, Inc.
• SmarterTrack

This conversation was recorded on Friday 23 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Sinclair Schuller, CEO of SaaS company Apprenda. We talk about Apprenda and the rationale behind the company’s recent launch of a ‘platform’ to make developing and deploying SaaS applications more straightforward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Apprenda
• Microsoft Azure
• SaaSGrid

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 22 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Daniel Tunkelang, co-founder and Chief Scientist of enterprise search company, Endeca. We talk about Endeca and then delve into some of the issues raised in a presentation that Daniel gave at Google’s New York offices earlier this year, exploring the lessons that search on the open Web might learn from the approaches that Endeca and others are taking inside the enterprise.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Alta Vista
• American Express
• Apache
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• ACM SIGIR
• Autonomy
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cover Flow
• Dublin Core
• Endeca
• FAST
• Google
• Google Search Appliance
• Hakia
• Home Depot
• Intel
• IBM
• Lucene
• MIT
• Microsoft
• Powerset
• ‘Reconsidering Relevance,’ slides from Daniel’s Google Tech Talk presentation on Slideshare
• Starbucks
• Daniel Tunkelang
• Walmart
• Yahoo!
• Yahoo! BOSS

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 20 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk to David Provost about his recent report on the Semantic Web industry, On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry. I reviewed this report for ZDNet when it was published at the end of last month.

We discuss the report and its findings, before turning to consider the engagement of ‘mainstream’ analysts with semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• ESTC panel session
• Forrester
• Gartner
• Gomez
• Hurdles in the Business Case for the Semantic Web (PDF), David’s thesis
• MIT
• Mondeca
• On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry (PDF), David’s report
• ontoprise
• Open Calais
• Semantic Business, David’s blog
• Semantic Wave report
• Sloan Business School
• Nova Spivack
• Thomson Reuters
• Top Quadrant
• Twine
• Yahoo! Searchmonkey

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 7 October, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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