RESTful Data Services
Today at the Mix '07 event in Las Vegas Microsoft's "data programmability" team announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. Astoria is an early piece of technology for creating and executing data services. The cool part is that it uses the Entity Data Model to model data in terms of entities. These services and entities are surfaced to the web as a REST-style resource collection that is addressable with URI's and that agents can interact with using HTTP verbs such as GET, POST or DELETE.
Interesting to see that Microsoft is taking the REST route.
For more information visit the Astoria live lab and check out this podcast with Pablo Castro talking about programming data on the web.