1) MSDN Web Services Developer Center is repositioned as "Web Services and Other Distributed Techonlogies"

2) Guidance on when to use which technologies to use when in building distributed apps with todays tools from Rich Turner. Steve Swartz gave an excellent session on this advice at TechEd.

3) related: WS-Security gets it's own PAG group. ("Web Services Security Patterns") This is excellent news. Not just how to use the stuff but WHEN, WHY and what approaches work best under which scenarios. I am really happy to see this happening.