Thursday, May 22, 2008

Amit Kothari talks with Talis about QuotationsBook.com>

Amit Kothari talks with Talis about QuotationsBook.com>
Your Podscope hit is at 8:43 In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Amit Kothari of QuotationsBook.com. During our conversation, we explore some of the background to QuotationsBook and touch upon Amit's plans for the future. We also address the recent Creative Commons-licensed release of QuotationsBook data in RDF, and investigate some of the risks and opportunities posed by this open approach to data sharing. Listen Now | Download MP3 [61 mins, 42 Mb] During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Amazon answers.com Facebook FOAF Future of Web Apps 2007 Iron, by Amit Kothari LibraryThing Linking Open Data community Lulu Moo Qoop QuotationsBook.com Shelfari Spinvox Spreadshirt Twitter Zoominfo This conversation was conducted over Skype on Thursday 24 May, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here. Technorati Tags: Amit Kothari, FOWA07, FOWA2007, FOWALondon07, FOWALondon2007, Linked Data, open data, Podcasting, qb, quotationsbook, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

(Cool) Shite Podcast 112 - The Fly acid-drops Spiderman>
Your Podscope hit is at 7:00 The Podcast This episode comes in at 37 megs.Direct Link to mp3 Digg the Review Show digg_url = "http://digg.com/podcasts/Cool_Shite_on_the_Tube_Review_Podcast"; Reviews Spiderman 3 The Fly [Buy From Amazon] Sponsors hava.nl - For all your website hosting needs intas.net.au - For all your Australian Internet needs Feedback And leave comments and suggestions in our forum thread or on this post. Technorati Tags Technorati Tags: movies, film, podcast, Tasmania, Australia, spiderman 3, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, The Fly, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, David Cronenberg Listen to the Podcast Now Download audio file (112-01_2007_05_05_-_Cool_Shite_112.mp3)

Leonid Meteor Shower: November 19, 2006
Leonid near Orion. Image credit: Mark A. Brown Click to enlarge One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to get rolling, so make sure you mark

Milky Way Shaped Life On Earth
Frenzied star-making in the Milky Way Galaxy starting about 2,400 million years ago had extraordinary effects on life on Earth. Harvests of bacteria in the sea soared and crashed in

Dan York - The Black Bag Security Review>
Your Podscope hit is at 17:18 "Practice safe VoIP," is Dan York's appeal to the new entrants in the digital telephony landscape. In a spicy, fictional anecdote, CISSP's Director of Emerging Communication Technology cleverly reveals the possible security vulnerabilities VoIP networks are amenable to. Like all happy tales, in the end, the bad guys lose; VoIP security tools are to the rescue. But in real life, Dan warns, the potential threats are only increasing.