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Web 2.0 Projects Book Deadline Extended. Includes a couple of examples of submissions received so far

Another one of those awful videos, in which people hold up handwritten cards to a background of some horrible dirge. Nevertheless, the ideas on the cards are pretty good, and perfectly complement the ideas in the forthcoming Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book! This video is definitely one to watch, bookmark and share.

The reference to the collaboration with Berners-Lee was mentioned at the recent Online Information Conference. If it comes off as planned and on schedule (a cause for celebration in itself?), this could be a very good illustration of the power of the so-called 'semantic web'.

Key paragraph and website: "We will make government data accessible through a single access point at www.data.gov.uk, which will go live from January 2010 with over 1,100 central government datasets free for reuse, ranging from lists of schools to traffic volumes on the trunk road network."

This technique has become known as 'Augmented Reality', or AR, and it promises to be one of the great growth areas in technology over the next decade - but perhaps not the reasons the leaders of the field currently envision.  The strength of AR is not what it brings to the big things - the buildings and monuments - but what it brings to the smallest and most common objects in the material world.  At present, AR is flashy, but not at all useful.  It's about to make a transition.  It will no longer be spectacular, but we'll wonder how we lived without it.