Two exciting pieces of RDFa news arrived within ten minutes of each other in my Twitter client. Both concerned governments making data open -- one in the US, and the other in the UK.

Next week Mark Birbeck is in Australia, doing a number of talks on RDFa

We're pleased to be launching two new initiatives to help people who are interested in XForms.

The first is the all new XForms Developer Zone web-site -- or xformsdz, as we're calling it.

Whilst the Developer Zone will be unashamedly biased towards XForms, within that, we'll have discussions, articles, code snippets, and tutorials about any XForms processor we can find, and any application framework in which it's used.

To accompany the web-site, we're also launching a regular newsletter, and a London XForms User Group.

Mark Birbeck to present at Yahoo!'s Open Hack day

Vertex Financial Services, parent group of leading technology suppliers, 1st - The Exchange, recently announced that Wesleyan Assurance Society has become the first organisation to go live with the new Adviser Evolution technology, a financial services application that makes extensive use of XForms.