General links

"As usual" - the best place to start is Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_identification_and_data_capture

The See-It-All Chip Radio-frequency identification — with track-everything-anywhere capability, all the time — is about to change your life
Time magazine

Try also the del.icio.us tags for RFID:
http://del.icio.us/tag/rfid

RFID is very much about finding things. Of this reason - check out the first chapter of the new book "Ambient findability":
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ambient/chapter/ch01.pdf

The internet of things

This article by Kevin Kelly in Wired provide some interesting views on how we connect all things on earth now:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

Tim Kindberg do have some interesting views on how to connect the physical and logical worlds:
http://www.champignon.net/TimKindberg/MobicomChallengeAsTR.pdf

Iconic Turn Lecture 13.12.2004 by Bruce Sterling, Science Fiction Autor and Journalist:

http://www.iconic-turn.de/staticpages/index.php?page=StreamSterling

Automatic identification

 www.aimglobal.org

EPC

The main source for EPC are:

http://www.epcglobalinc.org/

http://ken.mit.edu/web/

Supply Chains and RFID

This is a very interesting master thesis with the title "Information Visibility And Its Effect On Supply Chain Dynamics":

http://www.autoidlabs.org/whitepapers/yvj-thesis.pdf

Applications

Metro Group: http://www.future-store.org

Kourouthanassis, P.;Roussos, G. (2003): Developing consumer-Friendly Pervasive Retail Systems. Pervasive Computing. Avalilable from the IEEE database.

Brief descriptions of a variety of applications:

Security and privacy

Simson L. Garfinkel, Ari Juels, Ravi Pappu (2005): RFID Privacy: An Overview fo Problems and Proposed Solutions. Avalilable from the IEEE database.

Extreme RFID

RFID can be used for many purposes - even for humans:
http://www.bmezine.com/news/presenttense/20050330.html