The Might of XML
"inefficiencies in the way XML is digested threatens to paralyze distributed computing / SOA"

Amazon A9 Rolls Out Multimedia Yellow Pages
incorporation of location-specific video images. This would allow a visitor to see a restaurant listing and to be able to pan a series of images to see buildings on the left and on the right, which is part of a feature called Block View.

Peter Bromberg's UnBlog: What should be in a BLOG?

More Patent Funnies...
IBM Receives Patent for Using Regular Expressions to Extract Information from Documents, Google Receives Patent for Highlighting of Search Results,
and Microsoft Attempts to Patent Object Persistence.

Browser Alternatives: Beyond IE

Is Google Planning a VoIP Service? PCWorld.com

Why the Mac Mini is the New Altair
Opinion Column by PC Magazine
Mac Mini -- More Than Meets the Eye
MIT Technology Review

Comega
C# + XQuery + SQL = Cw
(former X#)

Google preventing comment spam
attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks

The next step would be to use full URL in the "rel" attribute,
i.e. a rel="http://google.com/links/nofollow/" href="..."
and this would be Semantic Web 1.0

conversation with Adam Bosworth Jon Udell

RSS is like Lego

How Lucent Lost It

XML.com: Introducing Comega
By Dare Obasanjo

New SW/WS comp - Cassatt: " In 1990, according to IDC, about 20% of IT costs were in [operations management]. Now, it's over 60%, approaching 70%."

Semantic Web Ontologies: What Works and What Doesn't Peter Norvig, Google

Maple Shade Animal Hospital

Joel on Software - Strategy Letter V

Joel on Software - Advice for Computer Science College Students

Back and Forth on UML and DSLs

book: Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web

Google Labs Publications: MapReduce

CBS News | Defining Google | January 2, 2005?20:01:07

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

a study on blogs7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people

Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect

Metacrap
Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia, by Cory Doctorow

References for 'We all stand on the shoulders of giants'