Last week, we sat down with part of the team from Adaptive Blue and talked about (among other things) their new product Glue.

The team has definitely been on the ‘podcast circuit’ as today the next edition of The Semantic Web Gang was published (we syndicate SWG) and also discusses Glue.   [Note: Alex Iskold, Adaptive Blue’s CEO, is a regular participant on the Semantic Web Gang, so this isn’t really surprising.]

Beyond discussing Glue, Gang members discuss their 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 RWW coverage of Twine.)

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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In this 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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In this 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 this 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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On this episode of the Semantic Web Gang, the members discuss their impressions of two recent conferences that set out to explore semantic technologies in the context of business applications - specifically The Semantic Technology Conference & the Linked Data Planet Conference.

The call also closes with discussion of news from Hakia, which had just announced the imminent availability of a new API.  Gang regular Tom Heath was unavailable for this call, and Talis CTO Ian Davis participated on his behalf.

 

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In May’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by special guest Barney Pell from Powerset. We talk about Powerset’s unveiling of their public beta earlier this week, hearing Barney’s thoughts on the process, press coverage, and the reactions of real users.

The Gang also discuss their reactions to the launch of Yahoo! SearchMonkey, and look ahead to the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.

 

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More information here.

As discussed last month, ReadWriteTalk will be syndicating the Semantic Web Gang.  On this episode, the members discuss Bret Taylor’s idea of a Wikipedia for Data and look at the role that semantic technologies should play in connecting diverse pieces of data together within and between organisations.   (Note: Bret is also the founder of FriendFeed and was interviewed with his co-founder on ReadWriteTalk.)

The regular members are joined by special guest Georgi Kobilarov from the Free University of Berlin.

For more information, please view the show notes.

 

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We’re pleased to announce a new monthly feature on ReadWriteTalk: The Semantic Web Gang. We’ll be syndicating every episode as part of ReadWriteTalk’s content.

 

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The Semantic Web Gang is hosted by Paul Miller of Talis and features a number of thought leaders in the semantic web space, including:

• Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue & ReadWriteWeb fame
• Greg Boutin
• Mills Davis of Project 10X
• Tom Heath of Talis
• Daniel Lewis of OpenLink
• Thomas Tague of Reuters

The Semantic Web is a trend we’ve covered regularly on ReadWriteWeb and I’m very excited to be syndicating this as part of ReadWriteTalk’s regular content.

On this month’s episode, the group debates the readiness of the semantic web. For more details you can visit the show’s notes.