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, 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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion (ESWC)
• Freebase
• Glue
• Linked Data
• Phase2 Technology
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
• Semantic Web Meetup
• VoCamp
• Web 3.0, New York City
• WWW2009, Madrid

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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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 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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Calais (and ZDNet coverage of the release)
• Clearforest
• ‘Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?‘ by Marshall Kirkpatrick
• ‘Harnessing the Deep Web, Present and Future‘ [PDF] (as referred to by Leigh Dodds, and further discussed on his blog here)
• SearchMonkey
• Sindice

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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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• AB Meta
• AdaptiveBlue
• Calais
• DBpedia
• DBpedia mobile
• Tom Heath’s podcast
• Geonames
• Giant Global Graph
• Glue (and my coverage on ZDNet)
• ISWC 2008
• Linked Data
• Linked Data Planet conference (and coverage of Tim Berners-Lee’s keynote)
• Peter Mika’s podcast interview and appearance on the Semantic Web Gang
• Musicbrainz
• OWL
• paggr
• RDF
• RDFa
• S3 from Amazon
• Semantic Web Challenge
• SemaPlorer
• SimpleDB from Amazon
• SPARQL
• WWW2008 conference (and coverage of Tim Berners-Lee’s keynote)
• Yahoo! Searchmonkey

This conversation was recorded on Friday 5 December, 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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