Expect to hear a lot about RSS at Gnomedex. Not only is Scott Johnson coming, but Dan Gillmor plans on spending a considerable amount of time presenting arguments for how RSS is the gateway to the next set of killer apps (thank you, Dave Winer). Oh, and Nick Bradbury will also be in the crowd. You already know how I feel about this stuff. I received an e-mail earlier this afternoon from one Jeff Hardison: "I handle media relations for Amazon.com's Web Services initiative. I stumbled upon your AWS-based RSS feeds (and now subscribe to your music one). I'm writing to see if we could use your innovative use of AWS as a case study, should a reporter need one." Here's a chance to get all your RSS questions answered - once and for all.... [C:PIRILLO.EXE]

Oh, boy, is this cool: Google Alert tracking service. Automatically search the web 24/7 Spotted on CyberJournalist.... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

The online retailer plans to release a test version of an online payment system that would let people use their Amazon accounts to pay for products bought at other sites. [CNET News.com]

Guidance for transitioning to Web Services and SOA. Practices and strategies for business, architecture, infrastructure, process and technical matters. [NewsIsFree: Recent Additions]

Kensington isn't the only manufacturer with a WiFi detector coming out; SMART ID has one of its own that should actually hit the market before Kensington's does. The credit card-sized WFS-1 can sense the presence of both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, and has an operating range of 500 feet outdoors and 150 feet indoors. Hopefully we'll be able to get our hands on one of each of these WiFi detectors, and see how they stack up.... [Gizmodo]

The release of the JSR-000168 Portlet API Specification 1.0 Public Review Draft has been accompanied by announcements of immediate support from Sun and Oracle. The "Portlet Specification" defines a standard for the Java portlet API outlined in JSR 168, designed to enable interoperability between portlets and portals by defining a set of APIs for Portal computing addressing the areas of aggregation, personalization, presentation and security. [The XML Cover Pages]

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Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is a joint specification of BEA ,IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and Siebel that defines a notation for specifying business process behavior based on Web services. It is positioned to become a Web services standard for composition. Thus, the basic idea behind BPEL4WS is to combine the power of business process management with flexibility and universality of Web services (please refer to the demo tutorial for information on basic principles of business process management and BPEL4WS) [Collaxa's Take]

The purpose of this series of articles is to demonstrate the true potential of Web services by creating an e-business dialogue that can be used to conduct real business. This e-business dialogue will be based on a real world business problem and the problem will be addressed by using a proven solution from RosettaNet. In this series, I will show you that the most important aspect of Web services is the e-business dialogue; I will explain what they are and how to construct them for business peers. In this first article in the series, I will cover the following: The true potential of Web services, Understanding how to conduct e-business dialogues, Advantages of leveraging RosettaNet, Introduction to RosettaNet and Translating RosettaNet into Web services [Collaxa's Take]

Tony Hammond from Elsevier has announced a PRISM module for RSS 1.0, and provided some example data feeds, including one for Nature. [xmlhack]