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With the economy in a slump and budgets being cut in traditional print and TV advertising campaigns many will be looking to the Web 2.0 world to reach their constituents. So what should be on your Web 2.0 radar for 2009? Web 2.0 gurus give you the low down.

School and learning as playground for sensemaking. Being on the cusp of the cusp of the question is where it's at: in this case the kids are putting together their own school as their first question.

CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.

Semantic Annotation in the Alvis Project

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), a clean, renewable energy source that has the potential to free many economies from their dependence on oil.

IBM® LanguageWare® is a set of run-time libraries and an easy-to-use Eclipse-based development environment for building custom text analyzers in various languages. Deployable in Apache UIMA, these analyzers can expose the information buried in text to any application. The Eclipse-based tools makes creating analyzers simple and fast, even for non-technical users. The tools make it easy to build dictionaries, ontologies, and rules for identifying key information, relationships and meaning.

As we enter the brave new world of software-as-a-service and software-based-on-services (like mash-ups and composite applications), there is a burden that information technology departments must bear that often goes unacknowledged--operational complexity.

Matching and relating identities is of the utmost importance for Las Vegas casinos. The author describes a specific matching technique known as identity resolution. This approach provides superior results over traditional identity matching systems.

High flair, non academic case for semantic reconciliation and indexing. No tech detail, but clear and useful principles.

Real-time web search - which scours only the latest updates to services like Twitter - is currently generating quite a buzz because it can provide a glimpse of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any given moment. Interest in this kind of search is so great that, according to recent leaks, Google is considering buying Twitter.

What lies at the intersection of journalism and videogames? This research project seeks to understand the ways videogames can be used in the field of journalism, providing examples, theoretical approaches, speculative ideas, and practical advice about the past, present, and future of games and journalism.