links for 2008-01-04

• Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008
  Interesting take of what's driving ISVs to SaaS
  (tags: saas isv)
• DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
  Site promoting standardized data portability. "As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors."
  (tags: xml socialsoftware microformats opensource opendata)