OGC gave a formal presentation at this year's Where 2.0, but its work showed up elsewhere, according to bloggers who covered the event.

Coverage of OSGeo from Wired notes a demo of WMS and WFS.

They [Brent Owens and Arnulf Benno Christi of Mapbender fame] walked through the process of simple map creation using the WMS and WFS protocols defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Through GetMap and GetFeature requests, users can retrieve vector-based map data, add or delete elements, and then output the results. The maps can be outputted as GIF or JPG for display in a browser, a PDF or SVG for publication, and as KML (Keyhole Markup Language) for insertion into Google Earth.

The confusion abounds in the marketplace about the distinction between "open source" and "open standards." GeoWorld offers a primer by OGC's Sam Bacharach that should help alleviate some of the mix ups.

Amit Shah, a Project Manager at IndiaNIC Infotec offers up a nice introductory article on "GIS and Spatial Extensions with MySQL" in his blog. He concludes:

In the current implementation of spatial extensions in MySQL, parts of the OpenGIS Simple Features have been left out. Among these are:

Functions - Some functions are missing, among them some that deal with creating new spatial data values from existing ones, such as Union() (not to be confused with the SQL UNION operator) and Intersection() (not to be confused with the Intersect() spatial function).

The LADS blog notes a recently published book by Krzysztof Kolodziej and Johan Hjelm titled Local Positioning Systems: LBS Applications and Services. Kris did some work at OGC in the past few years and I met up with him at the Location Intelligence Conference in April.

OGC President Mark Reichardt wrote the preface, which includes this paragraph:

The 9th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science titled “Shaping the Future of Geographic Information Science in Europe” was held April 20-22, 2006 in Visegrád, Hungary. The organizers already have the papers on the website in PDF and several touch on OGC-related topics.

The whole list is available, but these stood out in a quick review:

Special interest SDIs to support business processes - standards in precision agriculture

Are Geospatial Catalogues Reaching their Goals? - how to make catalogues more useful

LandVoyage, a mapping website aimed at real estate and other users, today announced it offers its data stores via WMS. The company, which is actually for sale, until recently required subscribers to use its own proprietary interface to view and query maps and imagery. The release notes that "ESRI ArcView (3.x, 8.x and 9), MapInfo Professional, AutoCAD (Map and Map 3D), Intergraph GeoMedia " can be used as clients, but notes sometimes additional software will be required.

A new version of the the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's spatial data catalogue FAO GeoNet is up an running. The website "provides agricultural information to decision-makers, allowing them to access satellite imagery, interactive maps and spatial databases from FAO, WFP, CGIAR and others" according to a press release.

The site includes a metadata search tool (I believe is uses OGC Catalog Services) as well as an interactive map viewer. The latter supports WMS and ArcIMS servers.

Two of the people behind GeoRSS have started a new blog covering the topic. The GeoRSS website is good place to start exploring how to geospatially enable RSS feeds.