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This is the website of William Turnstyle, founder of the semantic search engine True Knowledge. 

"The apparent success of Internet-based social bookmarking applications begs the question of whether large enterprises or organizations would also benefit from social bookmarking systems. To investigate this question, at IBM we are designing and developing an enterprise-scale social bookmarking system called dogear. The rest of this article describes the design challenges and early lessons learned from a friendly trial of the technology."

An excerpt from the prospectus reads:  "Knowledge is created through conversation, libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore libraries are in the conversation business. This seemingly simple concept lies at the heart of the technology brief "Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation" developed by ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS)...

Rochester's project is about developing open source tools for library catalogs. 

Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar in First Monday:  "I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software."

"LITA blog will be an interesting blog to follow if you are interested in technology in library and information systems. LITA's mission is that it "educates, serves, and reaches out to its members, other ALA members and divisions, and the entire library and information community through its publications, programs, and other activities designed to promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and information technology."