The Social Patterns wiki is a sprawling and decently well-organized collection of patterns around almost anything social online. Largely incomplete it, remains the most credible repository of patterns I've seen so far. We should all roll up our sleeves and contribute. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Play! is a new open source framework that promises to eliminate "bloated enterprise Java stacks" and adopt RESTful architectures. It's a developer productivity play that on the surface of it has a lot of Rails attitude. Must check it out when I get the chance. Just hit version 1.0. - Dion Hinchcliffe
A terribly misinformed article about The Long Tail. Certainly the concept has been leveragable with anything that has a network structure (including physical Yellow Pages distribution, which the aritlcle makes fun of). The tail is various sizes for various applications but there are almost always numerous ways to apply it to a given business model or situation. - Dion Hinchcliffe
After years of languishing on the margins of the Internet, the Semantic Web has matured to the point that some compelling apps are showing what it can do. At the current rate of advance, 2009 will be a banner year for an oft-ignored and given up on technology. - Dion Hinchcliffe