This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
O’Reillynet has an interesting piece by Tim O’Reilly about what the thirteen-thirtyseven geeks are saying are the technologies to watch in the days to come.
The roll-call is low on revelations, but towards the end Tim goes into a discussion of the relationship between custom web-spidering and web-services. The gist of it being that we’re going to see a lot more of the big database sites (amazon, imdb) providing low-to-no cost web-services similar to that which Google seems to be planning on offering with the recent announcement of it’s beta RPC interface and API.
Tim also covers many of the same topics from a slightly different perspective in this interview with infoworld.