Falken's Maze

Episode #6 finds us chatting with Nagaraju Bandaru, the CTO and...

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Episode #6 finds us chatting with Nagaraju Bandaru, the CTO and co-founder of Boorah, a restaurant reviews site that has done some excellent work in in the area of sentiment analysis. Boorah is also one of a very small group of companies who have brought to market a solid consumer-facing service with little or no attention paid along the way to the rich semantics under the hood. It’s also one of the better-received Semantic Web companies out there, period.

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As always, thanks for listening!

After a long layoff wherein Josh got married, Powerset got...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

After a long layoff wherein Josh got married, Powerset got acquired and Carla ran a certain launchpad conference, we’re joined in this episode by Dan Grigorovici — author of the Web 3.0 Beat blog and an organizer of next week’s Web 3.0 Conference, at which Mark is also moderating a panel on Semantic Startups 101.

In this episode we explore some of the prevailing themes of the Web 3.0 Conference and some of the bigger-picture trends that Dan sees for the rest of 2008 and moving into 2009.

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As always, thanks for listening!

Episode #4 includes guest Peter Berger of Alitora, an enterprise...

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Episode #4 includes guest Peter Berger of Alitora, an enterprise semantic company focusing on solutions for the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries.

We really wanted to have someone onto the series who represents the “other” side of things i.e. the enterprise, because the B2C startups doing (admittedly cool) things in this space often get the lion’s share of the press, and perhaps unfairly. The result, we think, was a most excellent conversation, and a big thanks to Peter for coming on the show.

In this episode we talk not only about what Alitora does and the huge market opportunity in front of them, but also what consumer-oriented Semantic Web startups might learn from some of the enterprise players (the answer: plenty). We end by brainstorming the possibility of doing a podcast roundtable that would facilitate some of that dialogue, and if you have any ideas for who might be included and/or what we might discuss, please let us know in the comments.

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As always, thanks for listening!

Episode #3 features Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:05:00 -0400

Episode #3 features Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable, who has recently begun a video podcast series on his personal site about all things Semantic Web, AI and robotics, with a healthy dose of ye olde social media thrown in for good measure;)

In the episode we start off by discussing the MSFT-Powerset acquisition, as well as the drunken revelry that inevitably ensued (paging Owen Thomas…) We then segue into talking about the state of AI, the relationship between AI and the Semantic Web (from both a programming and a marketing perspective), and where we are today with both, especially as compared to just 2-3 years ago.

Thanks to Mark Hopkins for being our guest, it was a great conversation, and we particularly appreciated his unique perspective as someone who knows the space intimately, but is coming back to it after somewhat of a hiatus, making for a really nice exercise in compare and contrast.

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Thanks for listening!

Episode #2 finds your hosts grilling our first special guest,...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:54:00 -0400

Episode #2 finds your hosts grilling our first special guest, Andraz Tori of Zemanta. The four of us actually met over tasty naanwiches in San Jose at the recent SemTech Conference (as evidenced by this embarrassing photo, thanks Mark).

We exercised some dicipline this time around — running time is approximately :18 (cue virtual pat on our collective back). If you’re having any trouble listening to the file, you can also download it directly here. Our podcast feed is here.

Thanks for listening, and thanks to Andraz for an excellent conversation!

Our very first podcast! It comes in at just over :30, so not for...

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:56:00 -0400

Our very first podcast! It comes in at just over :30, so not for the faint of heart, hehe;)

We discuss a wide variety of topics, including our impressions coming out of last week’s Semantic Technology Conference, different semtech communities of practice, incremental value vs. blue ocean opportunities, overall expectations of users, the swing back to fundamentally upgrading the infrastructure of the Web, the vast number of up-and-coming stealthy semtech startups (and their chances), mainstream cultural references for artificial intelligence, how semantic technology is represented at various conferences, and how semtech will continue to come to market in the Fall and beyond.

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Welcome!

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:19:00 -0400

Welcome to the home of the podcast series Falken’s Maze, produced by Carla Thompson (Guidewire Group), Mark Johnson (Powerset/MSFT) and Josh Dilworth (Porter Novelli). This is our little corner of the world where we discuss all things Semantic Web, from a (mostly) non-technical perspective.

The series grew out of our successful panel at the Semantic Technology Conference, titled “Taking Semantic Technology to the Masses.” Our goal here is simply to continue that discussion, as we found it to be very helpful in shaping our own thinking about these issues.

We’re planning to include special guests as often as possible. If you’re interested in participating, send Josh a line at joshua [dot] dilworth [at] gmail [dot] com. And if you’re interested in syndicating our work, we’re more than happy for you to do so, but please note that the content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (attribution required).

We’ll get this baby listed on iTunes too. In the meantime you can grab our feed here. Any other suggestions for distibution, please let us know!