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 [...]
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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 topics of interest. [...]
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 [...]
If Government is a Platform, what are people building?
I’ve written and spoken before about a recent upsurge in enthusiasm for exposing data from Government in ways that facilitate use and re-use, and will doubtless be returning to this topic in the ‘Government Data’ panel session at the Linked Data Meetup in London on Wednesday.
Tim Berners-Lee has been amongst those rallying to the cause, [...]
Come to Denver in November
Defrag is a conference that I’ve been watching for a while now. I was extremely disappointed when an opportunity to attend last year fell through, and therefore delighted when things aligned better this year. Trans-Atlantic airline pricing being what it is, I’ve even ended up with a few days in Denver afterward…
Eric Norlin has once [...]

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