In our latest podcast I talk with Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder of RightScale. We discuss the Santa Barbara (California) based company, its place in the Cloud Computing stack above infrastructure providers such as Amazon, GoGrid and Rackspace, and consider the ways in which it is evolving as these companies upon which it is dependent develop ever-richer sets of features.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Animoto
• Citrix Online
• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• Cloud Trends 2009
• eFax.com
• Elastichosts
• Eli Lilly
• Eucalyptus
• Flexiscale
• Force.com
• GoGrid
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure
• Rackspace
• RightScale, and the corporate blog
• ‘RightScale’s New Education Program Promotes Research and Innovation Through Cloud Computing‘ Press Release
• Starcut

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 5 March, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Armando Fox and Dave Patterson, two of the RAD Lab team behind the recently released Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.

The Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (RAD Lab) at the University of California, Berkeley – sponsored by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Sun – is well connected to the companies and research shaping the Cloud Computing space, and their report is intended to offer a coherent view of the opportunities being created now and in the future.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing (as reported by the Wall Street Journal
• Google App Engine
• James Hamilton’s paper on Cloud Computing costs (PDF)
• Microsoft Azure
• The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley
• Richard Stallman on Cloud Computing (as reported by The Guardian)
• Washington Post analysis of Hillary Clinton’s travel, powered by Amazon

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 17 February, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Koven Smith of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. We talk about Koven’s work at the Met, and explore the ways in which the museum is applying Semantic Web techniques to the interpretation of its rich datasets.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• British Museum
• CIDOC CRM
• CIMI
• Getty Research Institute and their thesauri on Art & Architecture, Artist Names and Geography
• Google discussion groups for the MCN Semantic Museum Special Interest Group and ‘semuse’
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• ICOM
• Library of Congress
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum Computer Network (MCN)
• Marco Neumann
• New York Semantic Web Meetup
• Open Calais
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Semantic MediaWiki
• Koven Smith, and his MCN presentation
• Powerset
• Tate

This conversation was recorded on Monday 26 January, 2009.

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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 with Duane Jackson, CEO of UK-based KashFlow. We talk about some of the issues involved in building and growing a Software as a Service (SaaS) application such as Kashflow.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• FreshBooks
• Getting Paid
• KashFlow
• PayPal
• Rackspace
• Sage
• SAP

This conversation was recorded on Friday 16 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk to Mark Greaves, Director of Knowledge Systems Research at Vulcan. We talk about Mark’s background, Vulcan’s interest in the Semantic Web, and explore the opportunities to build a business on top of semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• AdaptiveBlue
• AIFB
• Paul Allen
• American Geophysical Union Conference
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Boeing
• DAML
• DARPA
• DBpedia
• European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC)
• Evri
• HALO extensions
• IkiWiki
• Alex Iskold
• Large Knowledge Collider (LARKC)
• Linked Open Data
• Microformats
• Ontoprise
• OWL
• Project HALO
• Radar Networks
• RDFa
• Semantic Mediawiki
• Semantic Technology Conference
• SPARQL
• Nova Spivack
• Twine
• Vulcan Capital
• Vulcan, Inc.
• W3C
• Web 3.0
• ZDNet’s Semantic Web blog
• Zemanta

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 2 December, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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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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In our latest podcast I talk to Sean Martin, President and CTO of Cambridge (MA)-based semantic technology startup Cambridge Semantics.

We discuss Sean’s background with IBM, before turning to consider the work he’s currently involved in; building a sustainable business.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Anzo for Excel
• Aurora
• Cambridge Semantics presentation at Semantic Technology Conference 2008
• Lee Feigenbaum
• Jeff Han
• Haystack
• IBM
• IBM alphaWorks
• IBM Websphere
• Microsoft Surface
• Dennis Quan
• Semantic Layered Research Platform
• Simile

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 5 September, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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