On Wednesday, I posted my notes from an interview with Bert Armijo, VP of product management at 3Tera, developer of the AppLogic platform for grid-based computing. The platform is a consideration for service providers looking to deploy hosted applications. Our conversation, however, had to do with the release of AppLogic for enterprise deployment. One of the interesting circumstances of that release, and something Armijo described in our conversation, is the support relationship the company would have with enterprise customers, as they learned to deploy and manage applications on the AppLogic platform.

On Thursday, Jonathan Robinson posted on the commercial opportunity inherent in Web 2.0 applications and social networking sites. With Web users in general now very accepting of social networking sites, the opportunity may be emerging for businesses targeting the niche areas serving specific markets within the social networking customer set. It may be time, he says, for targeted sites to start taking their share of the rewards available to this kind of business.

Also on Thursday, from the Office 2.0 conference, David Snead posted about a conversation he had with David Carter, CTO of a company called Awareness, which provides social media tools that enable businesses to create blogs and wikis and other modern communications tools for business. Snead says awareness "gets it," in the sense that the company recognizes some of the real world legal issues associated with this sort of technology. By incorporating things like permissioning and versioning to take place in the background, Awareness's tools enable a level of compliance that is key to doing business.

Unconnected, at last, to the Web 2.0 theme of the week's news, WHIR tv blogger Anastasia Tubanos posted the transcript of an interview with former Ensim CEO Sandip Gupta, now president of India-based service provider NetMagic Solutions, a service provider with the unique opportunity to provide a remote infrastructure management service from its four data centers.

Largely by coincidence, the bloggers were focused on Web 2.0 technology this week. But the upside of that overlap is a series of complementary perspectives on a variety of layers to a very relevant technology right now.