SSL remote Access vendors:

F5 - uRoam
NetScaler
Fortinet
NetContinuum
TippingPoint Technologies
Blue Coat Systems
Aspelle
Neoteris
SafeWeb
Array networks

"Imagine creating all of your search agents in one place, and viewing the results all at once. Imagine knowing at a glance which listings are new, and which you have already seen. Imagine spending less time checking more job boards than you do now. Imagine doing this throughout the day, when you want to, and on your schedule." I think there's a future for fee-based topical and customized RSS services. [Web Voice]

Review of LiteOn's PhoMaster LVD-2001,

a progressive scan DVD player that supports playback of DivX and MPEG-4 video files,

 the idea being that you can burn all those DivX-encoded movies and TV shows you've downloaded off of the

 Internet to a CD-R and watch them on your TV rather than your PC.

Also has two PCMCIA adapters for reading Flash memory cards. Read... [Gizmodo]

dajobe-lap: blogs with semantic web, rdf, foaf related topics either regularly,

 or now and then; (2003-08-02 19:32) [RDF Interest Group Scratchpad]

Gets current weather given a zip code [New Web Services from SalCentral]

I've written often about using active intermediaries to modulate the flow of messages in a network of XML Web services. Gaia makes it trivial to inject such intermediaries into the fabric. Its API supports filters, monitors, and transforms. Filters can reject messages that fail a test, for example an authorization check. Monitors gather data for logging and traffic analysis. Transforms can change the behavior of a SOAP endpoint by rewriting its input and output messages. ... [Jon's Radio]