Sanjiva Nath, CEO of zAgile has condensed the expected key features of semantic wikis.
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Over 1000 participants were count on SemTech, the premier event for applications of semantic technology and the semantic web.

General trends this year were RDF(S), RDFa, OWL, SPARQL and also Linked Data or rather the Linking Open Data Project

It is very interesting that both Yahoo! and Google are looking at microformats and RDFa.

W3C with more than 30 W3C Member organizations presented at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, California. W3C gave an intro tutorial to Semantic Web (Slides are available here).
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