Normally, I just follow my own Bloglines account, checking those blogs that I’m subscribed to. I always try to force myself skip on as many posts I can. But every once in a while I go on a rampage in search of new good blog (-posts). Here is a round up.

• Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me: lists the 10 things the author thinks software development has thaught him. My favorite: “he business likes to say that all the features are as crucial. They are not. Push back and make them commit.”
• Here is a post on Particletree (bookmark that site!) that talks through the 4 ways of delivering JSON objects from the server to the browser client. Also this other post that talks through paging through JSON/Ajax data plus preloading the data.
• A nice aggregation of articles talking about business models on the web
• Update: another really nice post on Amazon’s technology and what the advantage of using their systems give. (I’m not completely buying into it, but thats a post for another time — Microsoft shoving all their apps onto Amazon and Amazon not going to budge underneath the pressure??)

For me personally, Skype is kicking it for real. Recently they released Skype Prime which is basically a payed service number (0900 in the Netherlands) but then for everyone and their mother: it is really easy to setup -no 3rd parties involved- and as such I think Skype will see a lot of Consumer to Consumer calls which is a space where a lot of people might want to participate.

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