Andy interviews Scott Davis, founder of ThirstyHead.com, on HTML 5, the already pervasive and "hip" web technology. Scott is a regular developerWorks contributor on Grails and Groovy.

Lotusphere 2011 starts this Sunday in Orlando, Florida and I’m joined in this episode by Kathy Mandelstein and Collen Hayes of IBM Collaboration Solutions, and by fellow traveler Todd Turbo Watson in a preview of themes and happenings at the conference. Check this blog starting Sunday for video content from the conference, including streamed keynotes and and interviews from the Product Expo, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Noah Gift, Associate Director of Engineering at AT and T Interactive, talks about synergy between cloud computing and business analytics, and give a working example from his new developerWorks article, Cloud Business Analytics: Write Your Own Dashboard. He also shares some interesting background on the history of business analytics, citing controversial U.S. political figure Robert McNamara as a business analytics pioneer and talking about the connection to games and statistical analysis.

James Mathewson, Search Strategy and Expertise Lead for IBM, is the co-author of "Audience, Relevance, and Search." In this interview, he talks about the critical elements in creating successful, audience-winning web copy, why it's more important than ever, making new media more searchable, and the relevant skills which are growing in demand. James has served as editor in chief of ibm.com, and was editor-in-chief of ComputerUser magazine and its website.

Andy interviews notable technology analyst and open source advocate Andrew Binstock, who discusses the open source business model, including licensing and code hosting options, and talks to the perfect storm that must occur for an open source project to become widely used (and actually make you money).

IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the rise of frameworks in cloud computing and reflects on his recent trip to JavaOne Brazil.

Andy Glover talks with the former JBoss CTO, Sacha Labourey, about his new endeavor, CloudBees, a Java Platform as a Service for both enterprises and ISVs, from development to production. Sacha talks about Hudson (an open source Continuous Integration project), the importance of a complete set of tools for the application lifecycle in the cloud, and also shares his thoughts on the Google app engine, Oracle-Sun and Java politics, and more.

Recorded during the summer, No Fluff, Just Stuff speaker Ted Neward talks .Net lessons for the Java world, alternative languages on the CLR, why Eclipse is the one IDE the Visual Studio team fears, closed source versus open source, Microsoft's cloud platform Azure, and why he thinks Apple is the next target of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Jeff Papows, author of, "Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software," talks about three converging forces that are leading to a proliferation of glitches, impacting businesses, governments, and consumers. Jeff delves into what can be done, and a third branch of the software development profession that he sees emerging. Jeff is CEO and President of WebLayers, Inc., a company focused on the automated governance space, and was previously CEO and President of Lotus Development Corporation which he helped integrate successfully into IBM.

Two weeks ago, executives from companies around the globe representing industries across the spectrum gathered in Barcelona, Spain to present, listen, and brainstorm on global business challenges and solutions. Turbo Todd was there as official event blogger and chimes in here with his recap. See Todd’s event coverage here, and additional developerWorks resources on industry opportunities here.