Boo

this looks awfully familiar :-)

Publish and Subscribe

"Publish and subscribe" - a term used for eons by geeks, appears to me
to be going mainstream (both the term itself and technologies based on
it).Publish and subscribe - an imminent overnight success after twenty years

Of course, it could be usurped by "event driven architectures" or some such. Ain't soundbite wars fun?

Long running applications

What if all your applications were running, on your machine, all the
time? A short visit to Tumbolia in this ITWorld e-Business in the
Enterprise article :
Raid on Tumbolia: A rescue mission for business data.