Now you can read books and manage your business!

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/amazon-unveils-200-kindle-fire-tablet-20110929-1kxr0.html

Another example of a Google Android based "view-controller" layer creating a user interface to access the mydigitalspace onDemand "model" - it's all about the user experience! - read more...

Of course in this example case, at this time, you need to be living in the US!

A very powerful feature of the onDemand service is the ability to schedule onDemand requests for periodic processing.

Great for email alert distribution, pushing information to other webservices (eg pusher.com, twitter.com, facebook.com etc), plus what ever else you can think up!

Find out more at:

http://mydsondemand.com/gettingstarted_automation

Some words on how you can use the Windows 8 Developer Preview and mydigitalspace onDemand.

http://mydsondemand.com/gettingstarted_windows8

Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplexity

New book:

http://www.amazon.com/Simplexity-Simple-Things-Become-Complex/dp/1401303013

"WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies."

Apart from the general benefits of this - when dealing with government organisations, including local councils, they will most likely insist on compliance to this standard.

In using the ibCom onDemand application framework in combination with jQuery, a lot of the work is done for you - via inherent compliance, ARIA jQuery plugins and dyanmic control over the stylesheets.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php