James Strachan on SOAP/REST
James Strachan sums it all up when he says; [...]Whatever happens in this whole web services thing, I do think alot of good has come from it already. Its forced people to think alot about distributed...
View ArticleTowards best practices for mashups
I previously pointed to the announcement of the shutdown of a version of the Google Adwords API, and commented that this really isn’t the way to go about versioning your Web 2.0 APIs. I’ve been digging...
View ArticleMeebo Me
Tech Crunch reports on a cool new service from Meebo, called Meebo Me, which allows people to embed a (flash) app in their pages which permits a one-on-one dialog with the owner of the page via Meebo....
View ArticleMashup best practice #2
Following up on my finger-wag at Google for not properly supporting mashup developers by messing up versioning, I have to now send them full props for one thing they’re doing very, very, right. One...
View ArticleSnake oil on the Web
Jorgen tries to convince us that Web 2.0 Needs WS-*. But he’s going to have do a lot better than arguments like this; And, as if to underscore why I don’t see the REST / POX / AJAX “religion” achieving...
View ArticleWAP-think invades Mobile Web 2.0
How has Mobile Web 2.0 come to this; One way that Web 2.0 companies can similarly adjust their services for mobile devices is by relying less on browser-based applications and more on small software...
View ArticleDeclarative Ajax catching on
Just a quick followup on a previous piece, Ajaxian picked up a couple of declarative Javascript stories today; Declaritive Ajax components and XML namespaces, referencing a great Dave Johnson post. a...
View ArticleApollo and the Google brand
This report about Google’s brand power reminds me of a discussion I had with a guy from Adobe at ETech who was pushing Apollo. I was trying to figure out why somebody would want to use it, and this...
View ArticleGoogle Gears: too much interface?
So I had a quick look at Google Gears this morning. Unlike some, I do most definitely see value in supporting disconnected scenarios, not because I don’t see pervasive wired and wireless networks being...
View ArticleGoogle Gears: the SOAP approach to Web app development
I respect what Google’s trying to accomplish with Gears very much, and appreciate that they’re helping draw attention to the need to build out the client-side of the Web a bit more, and that they’re...
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