Where are all the Web Services we were promised a few years ago with the blossoming of so many new protocols in support of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Maybe they are out there powering business-to-business (B2B) intranets, but I wonder when Web Services the average content manager might find useful, if not downright valuable, to syndicate and consume, will surface.
Far and away the most syndicated content on the planet comes from the Web's ten million or so Weblogs, the main consumers of which are individuals with personal aggregators of blog content. There are a few community aggregators: In the content management space, for example, CMS News aggregates daily news feeds onto a simple Web page from more than two dozen commentators on CM technology and practices.