This is a really interesting and energetic post byJose Fajardo on using Silverlight as the UI layer on top of Live Mesh to enable rich internet applications based on tagged(semantic) data. I'll be following the authors' progress. More interesting than that is another Mesh post by Steve Gillmore in which he describes the micro products of such companies with massive valuations like Twitter and Facebook in terms of products from the large corporations like Microsoft, and how Microsoft is starting to act like a startup again, among certain groups, with the introduction of Mesh and other online computing services that may be complement each other as mush as compete with each other. I think it's interesting that big companies may finally see the value of creating small products and releasing them into the wild without much deep planning. Let the users determine how and what the best use is, and survival of the fittest will take care of the rest. The internet really is an ecosystem, a vast expanse of information waiting to be utilized and organized in such a way that it has a value greater than what could previously be imagined. I think that's the whole point. Release the imagination from the contraints of overplanning and the future is wide open, which can be both exciting and scary depending on how you look at it. In future posts, I'll try to highlight varios ways to leverage Silverlight using distributed data sources. Let's hope that 2008 is the year that Web 2.0 begins to decline so that developers can begin to cultivate the Semantic Web in the great ecosystem of the internet.