Some random links left as flagged in my blogreader that I’m too lazy to comment on right now: Web services-related stuff in The case against high-level components, Whither delivery assurance?; 5 things every Web service developer should know; Retail Tagging ; Contracts define agreement; some posts of general interest: Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market and in the continuing saga of the really productive programming paradigms that keep being ignored: Building Interactive Web Programs with Continuations.