June’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang was recorded on-stage during the closing session of this year’s Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.
Regular Gang members are joined by conference organiser, Tony Shaw, and an audience in looking back at the issues and trends that emerged during the event.
As well as recording sound the conference team also captured video from the session, which is available for watching on their web site. So if you ever wanted to know what the Gang look like, this is your chance…
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In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, we discuss the recent launch of Wolfram Alpha and consider the implications of Google’s support for RDFa.
June’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang comes live from the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. If you’re there, why not come along and take part in the show?
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In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, Yahoo!’s Peter Mika reports from VoCamp on the Spanish island of Ibiza to spark a wide-ranging discussion on the role of vocabularies and ontologies in the Semantic Web.
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This conversation was recorded on Thursday 16 April, 2009.
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In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang regular members take a broad look at the news of the moment, discussing growing enterprise interest in ‘Linked Data’ and O’Reilly’s move to share RDF describing their book catalogue.
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This conversation was recorded on Thursday 19 February, 2009.
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In the first episode of 2009, we welcome Leigh Dodds, Benjamin Nowack and Peter Mika as Gang regulars, and talk with Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters about this week’s release of version 4.0 of the Open Calais service.
Towards the end of the call, Gang members talk about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s recent Read/Write Web report asking if Google were adopting a more structured and semantic approach to the delivery of query answers.
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This conversation was recorded on Thursday 15 January, 2009.
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In the November/December edition of the Semantic Web Gang we discuss the recent launch of Glue from AdaptiveBlue, and look back at the Semantic Web highlights of 2008.
AdaptiveBlue’s Alex Iskold is a regular member of the Gang, and shares some of the rationale behind the approach adopted with Glue.
Listen, too, to hear Gang members’ perspectives on the events, trends and companies that excelled in 2008… and those with work still to do.
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In October’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, a full complement of regulars is joined by Radar Networks‘ CEO Nova Spivack and Chief Architect Jim Wissner in a discussion of Twine.
Unveiled at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2007 and released in beta earlier this year, version 1.0 of Twine was opened to the world toward the end of October, and widely reported (see my coverage on ZDNet here, for example.)
In this discussion we touch upon the purpose of Twine, review the first few days of live operation, and then focus upon the team’s plans for the future.
When originally announced, Twine was closely associated with the Semantic Web, although the company’s current marketing is less quick to make that link. In conversation we discover more about priorities for the 1.0 release and dig into some of the ways in which semantic technologies will play an increasingly important role moving forward.
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This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 October, 2008.
In September’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by three guests to discuss the investment potential of the Semantic Web and semantic technologies.
With continuing investment in (and acquisition of) companies for whom semantic technologies are a key part of their proposition, we explore the extent to which investors are interested in ’semantic technology’ per se, and look at recent investments from Union Square Ventures to illustrate the wider discussion. A number of entrants to this year’s TechCrunch 50 event feature a semantic technology focus, and we also look at these with the help of Union Square’s Brad Burnham, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld, and VentureBeat’s Chris Morrison.
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This conversation was recorded on Thursday 18 September, 2008.
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In August’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, guests Peter Mika and Giovanni Tummarello join the regular members to discuss search and the Semantic Web. With much excitement around the topic and cutting edge developments such as SearchMonkey and Sindice there are many issues for the gang to discuss. The need to clearly communicate the benefits of any new technology surfaces as a strong theme throughout the discussions, as does the need to improve the range and quality of vocabularies for describing data on the Semantic Web.
Gang regular Alex Iskold was unavailable for this call. Standing in for regular chair Paul Miller was gang member Tom Heath.
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In July’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by two guests to discuss developments in the display and navigation of Semantic Web data.
With so much effort being devoted to the back-office manipulation and storage of semantic data, it is all too easy to forget the opportunities - and challenges - posed in inviting mainstream users to ‘browse the graph’ of semantic data. With expert contributions from MIT’s David Karger and the DBpedia team’s Christian Becker, the Gang sets about ensuring that the Interface is not forgotten.
Gang regular Daniel Lewis was unavailable for this call, and OpenLink’s Ted Thibodeau participated on his behalf.
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This conversation was recorded on Thursday 17 July, 2008.
