I spoke with Tom Gruber at the Web3.0 Conference in Santa Clara, CA this January. Tom is cofounder, CTO and VP of Design for Siri.com, an intelligent assistant for use over handheld and other web-connected devices. In this interview Tom talks about the perfect storm of semantic technologies, elastic cloud computing, and portable devices with high bandwidth connectivity, and how this combination is delivering capabilities thought never before possible.

Watch the interview to see Tom’s explanation of how these components leverage semantics.

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