In one of those weird coincidences that happen from time to time, Zach was sat at home yesterday writing his last post to this blog at almost exactly the same time that I was holed up in a quiet corner here at Talis, talking to Prof. Hans Rosling.

Hans is required viewing here, and I had a great time talking with him on and off-air about his attitudes toward making data work a whole lot harder.

Have a listen for yourselves, but I reckon there are a striking number of synergies between Hans’ ‘Semantic Web’-free discussion with me, and the issues alluded to in Zach’s post; issues that lie at the heart of the Semantic Web’s future.

In our latest podcast I talk to Brooke Aker, CEO of Expert System in the United States. We talk about Expert System and Brooke’s views on the utility of semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Autonomy
• Cogito Semantic Advertiser
• European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC) panel
• Expert System
• Open Calais
• Semantic Exchange

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

For other Talis podcasts in this Nodalities series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.

In our latest podcast I talk to Scott Brinker of ion interactive. We discuss the application of semantic technologies to Marketing, and explore Scott’s notion of Semantic Marketing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Alta Vista
• Scott Brinker’s blog, and his original Semantic Marketing post
• The Cluetrain Manifesto
• Dell
• Digg
• Dublin Core
• ion interactive
• Alex Iskold, his post on ‘Top Down’ and ‘Bottom Up,’ and my response
• LinkedIn
• MIT
• Procter and Gamble
• Salesforce
• StumbleUpon
• W3C
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey
• Yelp

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

For other Talis podcasts in this Nodalities series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.

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.

For other Talis podcasts in this Nodalities series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.