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US President Obama enforces the use of Semantic Web Technologies. David Peterson posted on SitePoint the follwing:
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic [...]

SMOB is a prototype developed to enable semantic microblogging. It can be seen as Twitter enriched with semantic data.
John Breslin writes in his blog post:
The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers [...]