Ten Universities with the Best Free Online Courses

Education Portal has compiled a list of ten top Universities with the Best Free Online Courses. If the basic insight behind Will Hunt's quip in Goodwill Hunting (to the effect that someone with brains and drive could receive a better education paying nothing but library late fees than the typical privileged student who pays tens of thousands of dollars in tuition to attend a top university) had any truth at the time, it is no doubt even more true today. For one thing, you now don't even have to worry about late fees!

10 Semantic Apps to Watch

Read/WriteWeb founder Richard MacManus has offered a list of 10 Semantic Apps to Watch and an interesting discussion about what "Semantic Apps" are.

These, apps, he explains, (1) use the web as a platform, (2) are distinct from "semantic web" technologies in that they may or may not rely upon metadata standards (such as RDF or OWL), and (3) "all try try to determine the meaning of text and other data, and then create connections for users."