Google Buys Freebase – This is Huge
Today, Google shocked the pundit world by announcing that they have bought Metaweb, the company behind one of the largest structured database Freebase. Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn’t merely words—it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world […]
A tale of two conferences
A somewhat hectic June concluded with my second trip of the month to California. Whilst the first excursion led to Santa Clara and an interesting insight into attempts by Hitachi Data Systems to reinvent its relationship with the wider community, the second journey took me to San Francisco and a pair of events that lie […]
Talking with David Siegel about ‘Pull’ and the Semantic Web
Continuing my series of podcast conversations with interesting people, this week I spoke with David Siegel in New York. David is the author of several best-selling books, and has just published Pull: the power of the Semantic Web to transform your business [Amazon US] [Amazon UK]. Standard Podcast [57:47m]: | Download We discuss the premise […]
A podcast conversation about GoodRelations, with Martin Hepp and Jamie Taylor
I recorded my latest Semantic Web-ish podcast last week, talking with Martin Hepp in Germany and Jamie Taylor in California. Our topic was GoodRelations, an ontology/vocabulary designed to enhance the clarity of descriptions of businesses and their products on the Web. As the GoodRelations site describes, “GoodRelations is a language that can be used to describe very […]
Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone
Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes […]
A podcast conversation with Will Hunsinger of Evri
I spoke with Will Hunsinger, CEO of Evri, yesterday and the result has just been released as a podcast. Backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Seattle-based Evri is using semantic technologies to “change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.” Via the site at evri.com, users are able to explore news-like […]
DRAFT report explores Linked Data potential in UK Universities
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) here in the UK. Like the BBC, the UK Government and others, they’re interested in the opportunities created by adoption of Linked Data, and will be issuing a call to fund some projects in the space early next […]
A podcast with Flip Kromer of InfoChimps… and the end of an era
I’ve been following InfoChimps for some time, intrigued by their aspiration to build a marketplace for data that combines the free with the paid. Thanks to the team at Jones-Dilworth (honestly, does Josh have any clients that aren’t interesting?) I managed to get some time with founder Philip (Flip) Kromer and Joseph Kelly whilst over […]
A podcast with Felix Van de Maele, discussing Collibra
Steve Ardire introduced me to Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Brussels-based Collibra, at the Defrag conference in Denver last month. We met again at the European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC), where Collibra won the seedcamp event. I spoke with Felix recently to record a podcast exploring the issues that Collibra sets out to address […]
November’s Semantic Web Gang podcast now online
November’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang podcast, which I host, is now online.
‘Why Linked Data?’ presentation at Defrag Conference
The presentation I just delivered here at Defrag is now on slideshare, in case you want a look. Why Linked Data? View more documents from Paul Miller. (Cross-posted @ Cloud of Data)
Licensing of Linked Data
As part of a workshop at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), former colleague Leigh Dodds prepared an interesting diagram on the ways in which resources comprising the Linked Data Cloud are currently licensed. For various reasons, I was unable to make it to Virginia for the event, but a scan through the presentations […]
CommonTag – A Long Overdue Effort
When I started tagging in its early days, I was wondering about the silos it will end up creating due to the lack of any standardized approach to tagging. But, I also realized that tagging, however chaotic it could be, is better than not having one. The efforts on the Semantic Web front gave me […]
Data Standards for Web Applications
While many despise WMA, DOC, MP3 and other proprietary formats the discussions about data formats used by web applications have been surprisingly silent. It is true that this is mainly because a lot of web applications offer XML export or offer an API for exporting data to other services. But as data formats in the […]
The evolution of an all encompassing world of cloud
I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time. I never found time to sit and put together my thoughts in a coherent fashion. It is about Semantic Web and how it will blend into the current cloud computing paradigm. In fact, I even have a provocative title for my future post. I […]
