It seems that the word of the day is REST or REpresentational State Transfer. More or less all articles and posts is about REST. I think the boost came when Microsoft presented Astoria which is a REST technology. The term REST is created by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. paper when he should describe an architecture style for networked systems.
His explanation of what REST is:
"Representational State Transfer is intended to evoke an image of how a well-designed Web application behaves: a network of web pages (a virtual state-machine), where the user progresses through an application by selecting links (state transitions), resulting in the next page (representing the next state of the application) being transferred to the user and rendered for their use."
Read a more reader friendly description here.
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