Nasdaq Data as a Service

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/11/08/nasdaq-continues-the-data-as-a-service-trend/

We'll see more and more business data sources exposed as data services.
This is more or less what Microsoft Azure DataMarket tends to generalize.
Today it is mostly limited to read-only kind of access, but I'm confident data manipulation services will follow soon.

Now, the 2 big questions:

1. How to widely enable all these data services, 
2. and how to easily combine these external data services with other heterogeneous data models?

This is exactly where Data Services Platforms have a great role to play.

Data services client for WP7

Seen during PDC 2010:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2010/10/28/data-services-client-for-win-phone-7-now-available.aspx

http://odata.codeplex.com/

Big data

Interesting series of videos by Jeff Jonas, "Mister Data" at IBM:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/27/big-data/

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

Two problems:
1. How to deal with huge volume of data? How to exploit it, understand trends, cycles, etc. ?
2. How to bring sense, meaning into that big data?

For #1, see Attivio, ClickFox or Aqumin for new technologies being able to nicely display huge amount of real-time data.

For #2, connect data together, build a context around it. It's all about semantics.

Data as a Service example in the Finance Industry

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/10/26/stock-data-api-hints-at-future-of-data-as-a-service/

Microsoft WCF Data Services CTP1 for .NET 4

and SilverLight 4:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2010/10/26/announcing-wcf-data-services-oct-2010-ctp1-for-net4-amp-sl4.aspx

JSON Data Services

Still, very limited at the moment but worth tracking...
http://adroitlogic.org/samples-articles-and-tutorials/16/79-json-data-services.html

It is part of the UltraESB offer.

jOOQ

Seen this article on TheServerSide: here.
Product page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/jooq

How should we react when reading posts like this in 2010?
It's like being back 15 years earlier.
How is that possible to write so many irrelevant statements in a single post?

The so-called "pragmatic" approach has given birth to so many useless frameworks like this one.

The good news is there is still a need for a comprehensive data manipulation solution.