Berkeley in cooperation with Cambridge, ETH Zürich, University of Osnabrück, and University of Saskatchewan on Open Source Lectures on Itunes/Google

"Opencast Matterhorn" is the name of the software. In some years now I know that Mellon and Hewlett foundations are some of the best project-pickers in the world, no doubt. They have an extreme competence to evaluate who and what they are giving money to. The Ivy League Universities and Cambridge are also not bad. The probability that this is going to be successful is very high, and when it is open source, you can be sure a few are going to download it and use it. I see they are using "Techcrunch" and "Craiglist" techniques, selfservice. People are used to this now, and it works very well.

"The university has already spent $220,000 this year on this project, named “Opencast Matterhorn.” Now grants totaling $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon and William and Flora Hewlett foundations will cover that expense and pay for further development of the system."
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/07/27/daily28.html

What would be perfect service for Universities could be:

1) Opencast Matterhorn (from Berkeley and Cambridge) specifically target Google/Itunes.
2) Zotero service for everyone (from George Mason University)
3) Dataverse Network (from MIT)
4) Open Monograph Press (from Public Knowledge Project)
5) Open Journal Systems (from Public Knowledge Project)
6) Topaz journal system (from Sourceforge)
7) Open Library Environment Project (OLE-project from many top American Universities, and Mellon Foundation! thats under development) or Koha (mature)
8) DuraSpace (an organization creating open technologies for durable digital content)
9) Google Wave, Native Client, Google OS, Google App Store are going to flood with scientific cloud computing services the next years.
10) Ubuntu and Redhat Linux looks to be the market leaders in the free software world, both on server and on mobile devices.

This is at least part of the selection from the most innovative biggest and most prestigous science foundations and best universities in the world. There is thousans of "me-too" projects for every software/service going on that I don't believe much in.