Blogs

http://blogs.wsj.com/in-charge/2011/08/30/adult-use-of-social-media-soars/
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If your small business doesn’t yet have a Facebook page, LinkedIn profile or Twitter feed, a recent study may persuade you to finally join the social-media bandwagon.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/how-to-create-sustainable-open.html
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The organisation that I'm lucky enough to lead — mySociety — didn't come from the world of app contests, but it does build the kind of open-source, open-data-grounded civic apps that such contests are suppose to produce. I believe that mySociety's story shows that it's possible to build meaningful, impactful civic and democratic web apps, to grow them to a scale where they're unambiguously a good use of time and money, then sustain them for years at a time. [...]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_longitude.php
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An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests, it presents a geographical interface for accessing content from The Times. It uses The Time's large store of metadata, along with Linked Open Data from the Web.

http://semanticweb.com/why-ontologies-are-needed-in-health-care-applicat...
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Joel Amoussou addressed the question recently of why ontologies are needed in health care applications. Amoussou writes, “at the practical level, ontologies can help us verify the soundness of statements in messages based on our conceptualization of the world.”
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http://appsforscience.com/submissions/4052-refinder
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We are building Refinder to support researchers organizing their state-of-the-art collections - combine papers with events, websites, notes, ... into one semantical network of information.
http://www.getrefinder.com/

What would researchers like to do with a collaboration tool that allows the storage of arbitrary RDF data, supports automatic tag recommendations based on language parsing, and a fulltext index? What not?

Curently you can:

http://www.openforum.com/articles/infographic-the-social-network-decisio...

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Come usare i social media per analizzare le rivolte popolari:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/series/reading-the-riots
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A data-driven study into the causes and consequences of the August riots.
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Un accorato appello all'open knowledge in ambito accademico:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-...
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Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers [...]

The knowledge monopoly is as unwarranted and anachronistic as the corn laws. Let's throw off these parasitic overlords and liberate the research that belongs to us.
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http://blog.iks-project.eu/apache-stanbol-free-and-ready-to-use-semantic...
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Where traditional metadata services are usually covered by CMSes, Apache Stanbol provides semantic lifting of the textual content: the automatic detection of “Named Entities” such as persons, places and locations and their linking to external sources, e.g. to dbpedia descriptions of resources. The enhancement capability of Apache Stanbol is currently the most mature part of the engine, but the engine framework is not restricted to just this activity.

Una presentazione che spiega l'esperienza in un progetto europeo dell'uso di tecnologie semantiche (RDF in questo caso) e di REST service per una piattaforma di integrazione e interrogazione di dati biochimici:

http://www.slideshare.net/jeliazkova_nina/seamless-and-uniform-access-to...