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Bruno Haid just pinged me to say they've got a (5 min) screencast up of their collaborative knowledge management tool. Although System One is aimed at the corporate market, I'd recommend that anyone working with Web 2.0/SemWeb tech take a look at the screencast, it's an impressive demonstration of what is possible on top of "unstructured" data. (These are the folks behind the Retrievr Flickr gizmo and the Wikipedia-in-RDF, they have Labs).

For a start there's seamless integration of enterprise info and authoring with real-time analysis of what you write. Although there are some familiar technologies involved as well (Wiki/blogging, syndication etc), the tech is presented in a way that from a user's point of view, it gets out of the way and just works. There are capabilities like custom (semantic) form building available, but even those look designed to be maximally user-friendly. Probably the most notable thing about the system is that though there broad facets (context) and views (perspectives), most of the navigation is mostly relevance-based and changes in real time as you interact. Compared to some of the other knowledge management tools out there, I reckon this does deserve the epithet "groundbreaking".

I did get to chat with some of the developers on this system a while back, but really must find out more. Bruno's kindly invited me up to the Microlearning conference in Innsbruck next week (they're one of the sponsors), so I've now extra motivation to get my work backlog cleared...