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I've seen and heard increasingly about Web 2.0, and a good person to look to for a description is Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly and Associates (a book company that gave me more technical information than my undergraduate education -- which was quite good).
A really good, and brief, argument for why Services and Components are really different, from Radovan Janecek's Weblog .
It is not too difficult to argue with it, but it has the merit of being "observable". His core argument is that components are stitched together through code -- either at compile or runtime, while services are accessed dynamically over a network. Interesting basis, and much easier to apply than many based solely on granularity.
Interesting article on ZDNet,ยป Grand Central turning to Swivel | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com, concerning the rise and fall of Grand Central Communications. Although I have already seen many analysis of this -- mostly with respect to its implications for Web Services, I like this article because it addresses the business challenges.
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