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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• data-vocabulary.org
• Ian Davis’ blog post on Google’s RDFa
• Dublin Core
• GRDDL
• Hakia
• Mathematica
• OWL
• Powerset
• RDF
• RDFa
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
• SPARQL
• True Knowledge
• VoCamp
• VoCamp Sunnyvale
• Wolfram Alpha
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 21 May, 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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• Calais (and ZDNet coverage of the release)
• DBpedia
• From e-Gov to Connected Governance event
• Kevin Kelly’s Next 5,000 Days of the Web at TED
• ‘Library of Congress embraces Linked Data movement‘ from semanticweb.com
• OpenLink
• O’Reilly announcement on RDF
• SearchMonkey
• TripIt

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 19 February, 2009.

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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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Calais
• compete.com
• Freebase
• Glue
• ISWC
• Metaweb
• Movable Type
• OWL
• Powerset
• Quantum Computer
• Radar Networks
• RDF
• ReadWriteWeb
• Semantic Web Challenge
• SIOC
• Siri
• SPARQL
• Twine
• Web 3.0 Conference

This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 October, 2008.

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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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Adaptive Blue
• Calais
• digg
• DotSpots (and TC50 coverage)
• Fotonauts (and TC50 coverage)
• Freebase
• Google
• Imindi (and TC50 coverage)
• Inform Technologies
• Metaweb
• Microsoft
• Popego (and TC50 coverage)
• Powerset
• Radar Networks
• Riverdale Partners
• Semantic Wave report
• Thomson Reuters
• TripAdvisor
• TripIt
• Twine
• UpTake (plus coverage on TechCrunch, VentureBeat and ZDNet)
• Wikipedia
• Zemanta

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 18 September, 2008.

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