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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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 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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In my latest podcast I talk with Chander Kant, Founder and CEO of Zmanda.

We talk about Zmanda’s use of Cloud storage in their Open Source backup solution, and consider the practicality of backing up data already stored in the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amanda Enterprise
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• JungleDisk
• Microsoft Azure
• Mobile Me
• Mozy
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Rackspace
• RAID
• Red Hat
• Sun Cloud Storage Service
• Sun Compute Cloud
• SUSE
• Symantec Veritas NetBackup
• Ubuntu
• Zmanda
• Zmanda Cloud Backup

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 6 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO and VP Cloud Computing Platforms at IBM.

We talk about IBM’s perspective on the Cloud, and discuss open standards, interoperability, and the Open Cloud Manifesto.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2 Running IBM
• Amazon Web Services
• Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
• Hadoop
• IBM Blue Cloud Initiative Advances Enterprise Cloud Computing
• IBM Cloud Computing
• IBM Hursley
• IBM Yorktown
• Lotus Live
• MapReduce
• Open Cloud Manifesto and my podcast with Reuven Cohen
• Smarter Planet Initiative
• Tivoli
• WebSphere

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 23 April, 2009.

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