About 18 months we at Microsoft first started presenting our ideas on bridging SOA and Web 2.0 - way ahead of the industry analysts, and other influentials. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1918120,00.asp is an article that Darryl Taft at eWeek wrote based on my keynote at VS Live in 2006.

Recently, I had the privilege of once again meeting with Darryl to discuss the state of this convergence. You can find his excellent article here.