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Microsoft's World Wide Telescope is a web connected desktop app that renders a tiled tour of high resolution, zoomable images of the entire night sky, woven together from a number of different telescopes and satellites. It leverages a "3D teraserver visualization engine." Robert Scoble's first interview at Fast Company TV is with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, who worked on the project.

We've embedded the demo video below because the product is likely to be one of historic proportions and we thought our readers would appreciate the opportunity to see it.

In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data. Available as a part of the Talking with Talis semantic web podcast series, the interview (listen here) is summarized on interviewer Paul Miller's new ZDNet blog dedicated to the semantic web. A full transcript is available here.

It's an important conversation and a good introduction to what the semantic web is. Also notable is the way that Berners-Lee sees Semantics and Data Portability as very related. Some highlights are excerpted below.

Sean Ammirati posted a 20 minute podcast interview and transcript with new Mozilla CEO John Lilly tonight and Lilly has some interesting things to share about the future of the organization. Data Portability, the forthcoming version of Firefox (Firefox 3, available in beta now), mobile Firefox and the Mozilla Weave "cloud computing for the browser" project are among the topics the two discuss.