A Service Oriented Approach to e-Government Architecture is an interesting paper about loosely coupled service architectures in government.
John Battelle gives a nice summary of the Google IPO, focusing on the letter from the founders. I can see Wall Street running a mile from this kind of thing – there’s plenty of cash elsewhere in the private sector, and there won’t be a tech-related bubble for several years now. Then again, maybe they’ll re-write the financial landscape. I’d bet on Wall Street any day.
The long-awaited Priority Services Paper is out. Not as many changes as I’d expected / hoped from the consultation. However, this is the e-Government agenda in the UK for the next 20 months, so off we go!
Gigablast looks like a reasonable new search engine with highlights from Google and others (such as categorisation, suggestion of related searches, spell checking).
Burningbird has moved away from Movable Type to WordPress. This is at the back of my mind as well. Roll on some time to do it!
Sony’s Electronic Paper eBook Bound For Greatness says Gizmodo. I doubt it – the first to market is never normally the category killer. However, I’m looking forward to the general availability of light, usable, high definition ePaper.
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