Ryan Tomayko documents How he explained REST to his wife…. I’m not too sure why his wife was asking about REST, but this is one of the easiest reads on REST out there.

This is a bit older but interesting nonetheless. Niall Kennedy discovered that Google is about to release a Google Reader API. This is interesting in the fact that you can build your own RSS reader using Google’s API as the backed for your application. Niall has quite a few examples on how to use this API.

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch has a good summary of the new Amazon  Grid Storage Web Service.  In a nutshell this new service from the number one online bookseller, provides web developers with a very inexpensive ($.15/GB of storage) online storage system that can be accessed using both REST and SOAP.  The idea is that Amazon provides the storage, bandwidth and scalablility any you the developer build applications on top of it.