ESRI System Design Strategies 2009

ESRI has updated their system design strategies white paper as of August of 2009. This document addresses many of the technical issues of GIS systems and is a great reference

Link to White Paper

Google Place Pages

Some discussion about Google's Place Pages that those of you invloved in web applications would find interesting (courtesy of Jason Birch's Blog, City of Naniamo):

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