Paul Miller

In my latest podcast I talk with Scott Rodgers and Bob Fahey of multinational IT Consultancy firm, Avanade.

Formed as a partnership between Microsoft and Accenture, Avanade focuses upon delivering IT solutions based upon Microsoft’s suite of technologies and products, including Cloud offerings such as Azure and the company’s Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS).

I discussed Azure in a podcast with Microsoft’s Amitabh Srivastava last year, and in this latest conversation Scott and Bob share some of the experiences Avanade has gained in rolling out over 1.3 million BPOS seats to a wide range of enterprise clients.

 

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This podcast was recorded on Wednesday 28 July, 2010.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources; Read the rest…

I was in Manchester yesterday, having been invited over by Paul Collins to speak at Vision+Media‘s final Transmissions workshop. The topic was ‘Towards a Web of Data,’ and the other speakers were Bill Roberts of Swirrl and Liz Turner of Iconomical.

Bill’s slides are here, and mine are embedded below.

Thanks to Paul for the invite, and to the audience for braving an intermittently (very) wet Manchester evening to spend a few hours discussing Linked Data, the Semantic Web, and related topics; it was fun.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Richard Stirling of the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, and we discuss progress with the Government’s ambitious data.gov.uk site.

 

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This podcast was recorded on Friday 16 July, 2010.

I spoke with John Sheridan of the Government’s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) back in July of 2009, when this programme was just taking shape. More recently, Talis‘ Richard Wallis recorded a podcast with Richard as data.gov.uk formally launched earlier this year, and his colleague Zach Beauvais followed up with a videocast to explore some uses for the data.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources; Read the rest…

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 at the heart of the advances that underpin much of my current work.

The Semantic Technology Conference celebrated its sixth year in 2010, moving from San Jose to the Hilton Union Square in Downtown San Francisco. This was my fourth (I think!) year, and alongside the “30% increase in attendance” to around 1,200, I noticed a refreshing realism amongst presenters, exhibitors and attendees; the hyperbole and inflated expectations of the “Google killers” thankfully seemed mostly to have been replaced by good ideas, sound business models, and steadily growing customer bases. Richard MacManus has been doing a good job of distilling some of the news from the event, and pushing it out on ReadWriteWeb.

Across town at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, GigaOM‘s smaller and younger Structure Conference broke out of its previous 1-day format to pack two days with various insights into the shifting Cloud Computing landscape; insights that were reported as they happened on GigaOM and elsewhere, and preserved on video for you to watch at your leisure. Read the rest…

From a trebling of web traffic within sixty seconds of Channel 4 mentioning the Celebrity Big Brother URL on-air, to 59 million hits in a day to a restaurant web site advertised during the US Super Bowl, advertisers, broadcasters and technologists are falling over themselves to exploit a massive — and growing — opportunity.

In my latest piece for GigaOM Pro, published today, I take a look at some of the ways in which the elastic nature of Cloud Computing is being exploited in order to support the increasingly rich interplay between on-screen and online content.

As more of us watch television whilst also able to get online with a laptop, tablet or smartphone, the opportunities for further interaction – and the prospect of extreme spikes in traffic within seconds of an on-screen prompt – grow by the day. There are some interesting examples of early success here, but it remains an opportunity that is still a very long way from being fully understood or exploited.

Thanks to Tom Lounibos at SOASTA, Andy Parker at Channel 4, and everyone else who took the time to speak with me as I prepared the piece.

Image ‘138/365: It’s not Rocket Science FUTAB‘ by Christopher Thomas, shared on Flickr with a Creative Commons license.

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