Kaltura is an open source video platform, from its video codec to its back-end systems for uploading, hosting, embedding, syndicating, analyzing and inserting advertisements into videos. Anyone can use the code for free: clients pay only for custom installation, integration, and support, depending on their level of traffic. Kaltura is also co-founder of the Open Video Conference that took place in NYC..........

A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared.

Two days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University. The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find some highlights I transcripted from his speech.

The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources.

1. Open File Sharing: users must be free to share files on their hard drives with each other. 2. Open File Formats: content must be distributed in MP3 and other formats with NO digital rights management protection. ......

The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first "computational knowledge engine", something capable of answering factual question for you. The Wolfram engine is described as "a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it".

The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called "Open Platform", which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper. The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content..........

On Newsflashr.com you can track all the latest news among a variety of newsaggregators, all from a single site: a useful tool for web searches of any kind.

Juice is a plug-in for Firefox browsers, which lets you grab text, image or video, providing you with context-relevant information, aiming to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.