What are some places to find out about bleeding edge web tech and trends?

Question

Hey guys,

As a web developer it's always nice to be knowledgeable about upcoming web trends and tech, but currently I am very limited to what I hear about through friends and at work. Where are some places you go to find out about bleeding edge web stuff?

Examples might be things like:

Non-Relational Databasing
Augmented Reality
Cloud Computing
Natural Language Parsing
etc...

cheers,
Mike

Answer 1

What about browsing the web-development tag here?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-development

Answer 2

I recommend this blog: http://www.dbms2.com/ which is all about new databases (NoSQL, RDBMS, some clouds, BI, OLAP, warehousing).

Answer 3

Here is a couple of my favorite web sites for that purpose:

• http://www.infoq.com
• http://www.javaworld.com/
• http://java.sys-con.com/
• http://slashdot.org/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site
• http://www.wired.com

There are other, but I think those will suffice.

Answer 4

Current List:

General

Things Every Web Developer Should Know
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.wired.com/
Hacker News

Databasing:

http://www.dbms2.com/
http://nosql-database.org/

Enterprise Software

http://www.infoq.com/

Java

http://www.javaworld.com/
http://java.sys-con.com/