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Whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal according to a statement released by the new media team at the White House.  In the grand scheme of World politics the news that the Obama administration has selected an open source content management system running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP stack is not earth shattering but according to Tim O’Reilly, this move is a big win for open source advocates.

The need for a simple UI and user-friendly results is amplified in a mobile device.  Mobile search should return only a handful of results with a high accuracy and be focused on answers and not lists of links. This change of focus requires semantic search engines that ‘understand’ the meaning of words and content, rather than merely matching keywords.

The Sept./Oct. 2009 issue IT Professional  has been dedicated to reviewing the progress  of turning Semantic Web concepts into real-world applications.  This issue reviews the progress that has been made in translating Semantic Web concepts into real-world applications.

In the third installment of The Twitter Sentimeter Mark Gibbs goes into greater detail about his caching problems and explains how he added some simple code to disable the OpenAmplify and ASP.NET caching.

Google has announced that they'll be using microformats and RDFa information from searched pages to inform their search results.  Tim O'Reilly provides thoughtful discussion on what Google's announcement means and the implicit irony of the search giant embracing semantic markup.