• Will the Online Identity War turn out like the XML Syndication War?
• My Holiday Project: A Twitter Search Engine Built on Windows Azure

Nabble – Nabble – OpenID – General – SAML vs OpenID = SOA vs REST

Zap Think

• Seven Strategies for SOA Success Learned in 2008
• Enterprise Mashups – Good or Bad?

Dominick Baier – Federating with Live ID (using the Access Control Service)

AWS Editor – Solve for Efficiency With Amazon Mechanical Turk

Dave Linthicum - SOA Versus Integration? Really?

David Millman – The Rise of Events and Eventing

Jim Webber – Origins of Cloud Computing and *aaS

Joe McKendrick – Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008

J Vaughan – Microformats for fast REST APIs?

Loraine Lawson

• Strategic Integration: Business Building Tips from 2008, Part I
• Strategic Integration: Business Building Tips from 2008, Part II

Nicholas Allen – Forwarding Service, Part 1

Phillipe Destoop – WCF with regards to Cloud Computing and Azure

Sami – PHP Web Services: Article Introducing PHP Data Services

Steve Jones - In a recession its even more about the services

Trevor Eddolls – Mainframe Update: Enterprise WOA

Udi Dahan – Building Super-Scalable Web Systems with REST

• Contracts as an Organizational Approach to Alignment
• Google Chrome shifts architects’ equations as V8 powers the browser

DotNetInterop Blog – Using the WSDL-First design approach with WCF services

Via Stefan Tilkov

• Quote of the Day on REST and uniform interfaces
• Roy Fielding on the “Beyond REST: XMPP” Thing

Mike Kavis – Cloud Computing for Companies of all Sizes

AWS Editor – AWS Security White Paper

Brenda Michelson

• New SOA Consortium Podcast: SOA Event Processing Roundtable
• New Podcast: Savant’s Bruce Henderson on SOA Event Processing via Mashups
• New Podcast: IBM’s Ed Lynch on SOA Event Processing via BPM

Dave Linthicum –

• Dion Hinchcliffe and I on WOA (Podcast)
• SOA and Chrome follow-up
• SOA Governance Monday: SOA governance delivered as a service?
• Google Chrome and SOA
• Google Chrome seems to be shining for SOA

Dmitriy Setrakyan – 20 Real-Life Challenges in Cloud Computing

Don Box – eWeek Article Dubbed the most accurate piece on Oslo

Joe McKendrick

• Get to work he says! Too much ‘whining’ and not enough action on SOA?
• Why Does SOA matter? (Part 4)

J Vaughan – When SOA met WOA, or Building applications that work while buzz pesters you

Loraine Lawson

• What’s Chrome Got to Do with SOA?
• Master Data Management: Whaddya Mean It’s Not About the Data?

Steve Vinoski - The Technology Adoption Side of RPC and REST

Todd Biske

• Governance in the Clouds? No thank you.
• SOA Governance Book

• Oracle acquires SOA management vendor
• Service Semiotics and the SOA Illusion
• Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

Amazon web services

• Announcing the AWS Start-Up Challenge – Win $100,000 in Prizes
• SimpleDB Domain Metadata Spec – Your Input Needed
• Cloudbursting – Hybrid Application Hosting

Bob McIlree – On business analysts and enterprise architects and what they Collectively Bring to the Table

Dan Foody – WOA governance

Dave Linthicum

• SOA Governance Monday (Okay Tuesday): Design time, and the missing pieces, part II
• WOA, or whatever … Here’s some ‘detailed’ initial thinking

Joe McKendrick -

• Debate rages over SOA’s ‘cloudy’ future
• SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
• Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?

Jon Udell – The continuum of access styles in the emerging Microsoft cloud

Loraine Lawson

• Seven Steps for Launching SOA — From the Real World
• Big and Small Cases for How SOA Helps Solve Integration

Nuno Teixeira – A RESTful Core, Part 3, Logical Level Programming

Philipe Destoop – Goldman Sachs: Cloud computing last item on priority list CxO?

Rich Seeley – XTP powers SOA

Todd Hoff – Useful Cloud Computing Blogs