Stephen Downes blogs:

Some of this W3C doment discussion seems to be echoing some of the discussion about open social networks. It's nigh well time. "RDF allows the users to describe Web documents and resources from the real world-people, organisations, things-in a computer-processable way. Publishing such descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) are very important, forming the link between RDF and the Web." Leo Sauermann and Richard Cyganiak, eds., W3C, December 18, 2007.

good to hear!

thx to Martin Memmel for the link

Recently an expert group for ubiquitous collaboration was initiated, the founding meeting was in Vienna. I collaborated, read the press release of the group:

The Ubiquitous Collaboration Expert Group kick-off meeting collocated with the EU CWE projects concertation meeting at the TU Vienna on Dec 6. was a great success.
Representatives from CoVES, DiFac, inContext, Nepomuk, POPEYE, and Nepomuk presented their projects and participated in a fruitful discussion on "Standardization of Collaboration Services". We are very happy to have them join UbiCollab. Many thanks to all participants demonstrating their interest in jointly driving future UbiCollab activities.
Presentations, discussion results, and fotos of the kick-off meeting are
available online at:

http://www.ubicollab.net/