In my latest podcast I talk with Eric Hillerbrand about his notions of ‘Social Commerce.’

We discuss some of the ways in which semantic technologies play a part in altering the traditional relationship between people and brands, consumers and retailers.

This conversation was recorded on Friday 17 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Bert Armijo, co-founder and Senior Vice President for Sales, Marketing & Product Management at 3Tera.

We discuss 3Tera’s AppLogic solution, consider the different roles for ‘public,’ ‘private,’ and ‘internal’ Clouds, and explore the rationale behind the company’s ambitious Service Level Agreement (SLA).

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 3Tera
• 3Tera SLA, and my coverage
• Agathon Group
• AppLogic
• Cisco
• Clearing the air on Cloud Computing [pdf] McKinsey report
• Layered Technologies
• LAMP
• Barry Lynn
• MySQL
• Peter Nickolov
• Nortel
• SilkFair
• TopSpin Communications
• Wells Fargo

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Leigh Dodds, Programme Manager for the Talis Platform.

We discuss Talis Connected Commons, a recently announced initiative through which developers can host their public domain data in the Talis Platform for free and benefit from the Platform’s capabilities whilst also making their data available to others in the growing Linked Data ecosystem.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• BBC
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons CC0 License
• DBpedia
• Ingenta
• Internet Archive
• Linked Data
• Open Data Commons
• Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License
• Science Commons
• Science Commons Open Data Protocol
• Talis
• Talis Connected Commons
• Talis Platform

Image of Leigh Dodds © Gavin Bell, 2008

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

We discuss W3C’s continued engagement with Semantic Web activity around the world, touch upon current activity to enhance existing specifications such as SPARQL, and consider the success of the Linked Data meme.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, my podcast with him, and his talk at TED earlier this year
• DBpedia
• Energistics
• FOAF
• International Conference on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web
• Linked Data
• Merck
• Microformats
• Eric Miller
• Novartis
• Open Data
• OWL
• RDF
• RDFa
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
• SPARQL
• SQL
• World Wide Web Conference, Madrid
• W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
• XBRL

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 8 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate Vice President with responsibility for Windows Azure at Microsoft.

We discuss Microsoft’s embracing of Cloud Computing with their Azure platform, and consider some of the ways in which Microsoft will enable their more conservative Enterprise customers to realise the benefits of the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon Web Services
• Steve Ballmer
• Digital Equipment Corporation
• Google
• Google Apps
• Microsoft
• Microsoft .Net
• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC)
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Research
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Azure
• Microsoft Windows Server
• MIX
• Ray Ozzie
• REST
• Texas Instruments
• XML
• Zoho

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 25 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Adam Gross, VP for Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com. We discuss the rise of this SaaS innovator, explore ways in which the company can maintain its edge as the competition hots up, and consider the balance between offering a rich and evolving application and supporting a Platform ecosystem.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Marc Benioff
• developer.salesforce.com
• Force.com
• Grand Central
• Personify
• Salesforce App Exchange
• Jonathan Schwartz
• Sun Cloud
• trust.salesforce.com

This conversation was recorded on Friday 20 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Russ Daniels, VP and CTO for Cloud Services Strategy at Hewlett-Packard. We discuss HP’s far-reaching Cloud Computing activities, and consider some of the ways in which embracing the Cloud brings change to an established IT company such as HP.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• EDS
• GoGrid’s API
• Mark Hurd
• IDC
• Moore’s Law
• Shane Robison
• Sun’s API

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 18 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Oracle’s Jeff Pollock about his recently published book, The Semantic Web For Dummies.

We discuss the rationale behind the book and its intended audience, before turning to consideration of the impact that Semantic Technologies are having across a range of sectors.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• AdaptiveBlue
• Adaptive Information: Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration
• Tim Berners-Lee and his Linked Data talk at TED 2009
• Calais
• Cerebra
• Glue
• Linked Data
• Modulant
• OASIS
• Open Data
• Oracle
• OWL
• RDF
• SearchMonkey
• SOAP
• SPARQL
• Thomson Reuters
• TripIt
• Twine
• W3C
• Yahoo!

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 24 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. We discuss Nigel’s background in Artificial Intelligence, and the appeal of the Semantic Web, before turning to explore the introduction of Linked Data to an enterprise audience and the multidisciplinary focus required to carry the Web forward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
• Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
• Cambridge Consultants
• DBpedia
• DSpace
• Egg
• Epistemics
• ePrints
• FirstDirect
• Garlik
• Wendy Hall, and our recent podcast
• Mike Harris
• Tom Ilube
• Linked Data
• Mosaic
• QDOS
• Scientific American, and its 2001 Semantic Web article
• SPARQL
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham
• University of Southampton
• VoCamp
• Web Science Research Initiative

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 10 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with two of Appistry‘s co-founders; Chief Architect Michael Groner and Chief Strategist Bob Lozano. We discuss definitions of Cloud Computing, and explore some of the wider issues that Appistry sets out to address with their products and approach.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Appistry
• BigTable
• EC2
• Federal Express (FedEx)
• GeoEye
• GoGrid
• Google App Engine
• Hadoop
• Rackspace
• Salesforce
• SimpleDB
• Skytap
• Werner Vogels

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 4 March, 2009.

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