So looking at Astoria very briefly today ... a good starting point is probably Alex James blog and all the linked posts - and so far I'm left with a "so what" attitude to the technology releases so far (but it is very early days).

I feel like what's being presented is something I could cobble together using Dream and ActiveRecord/NHibernate or Base4 with a couple of weeks work at best... I'm probably being a little optimistic though ;o) Devil is always in the detail... but what's in the wild so far hasn't made me sit up and take notice, I hope the next couple of drops will though.

However in the mean time, what does interest me:

• Standardization of a query scheme... so far I've only seen examples of search/get queries.. I'm particularly interested in any update related queries... this is where the opportunities for doing evil live, and where community input will be vital I think.
• How does WebDAV fit into the Astoria picture at the moment?
  
• Astoria SaaS ... I find the idea of being able to design and provision REST'ful stores on the web (with my own schema) quite intriguing.
• That said - I'm not sure what I'd do with it, but I still want it ;o)
• And thinking out loud, but besides the obvious uses for web/ajax/flash/silverlight fraternity *yawn* - could this kind of thing actually give new life to some desktop based applications - It could certainly smarten them up a bit, so that using the same application on multiple machines (i.e. work/home) could optionally give you the same experience.