Ever on the bleeding edge of eGovernment, the Government of Canada has announced 35 new RSS feeds with National and regional news, Aboriginal and Business information, government, immigration and employment items and more. The new feed information page also provides a backgrounder on RSS with instructions on how to obtain and install RSS software:

Rich Site Summary (RSS) or as some refer to it, Real Simple Syndication, is an XML-based format for content distribution in real time. Government of Canada Newsroom feeds will include the date, title, summary and a link to the full news article.

For those without readers, Teledynamics is pleased to provide a free aggregated listing combining all gov.ca feeds, and the news page now sub-groups some of the categories.

[ Source: Government of Canada Newsroom - Choose Your News ]

ITWorld Canada reports on the launch of a new multi-vendor initiative to foster the JSR168 and WSRP open standards for webapp 'portlet' programming with the launch of a new Portlets Open Source Trading Site

POST aims to help companies kickstart their portal deployments, leading to faster time to value for all portal customers by providing open source portlets and a forum to exchange and learn about how these emerging new standards.

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IDC forecasts the North America Web Services Professional Services spending is soon to break the billion-dollar mark , and while some significant block of this is likely vanishing into stacked consulting sold to the unwary buyers who may not understand the RPC/REST distinction, when you are talking 10-figure spending, there's also a lot of big endorsement and ROI proofs going on.  read more »