Web Things, by Mark Baker

Phil Wolff critiques my resumé, and apparently likes what he sees. Thanks, Phil. How nice is that? Of course, I promptly patched it in response to the two very valid nits he had.

The job hunt is going well, actually. It started slowly, but is picking up steam. Just received an offer out of the blue from a local company, and it could be really good (Semantic Web, “Web services” (cough), collaboration, etc..), but I want to do some due diligence on them first, as I don’t know a lot about them as a going concern. Amazon has an evangelist position that sounds like it would be a blast, but I’ve got to check that the travel wouldn’t be too brutal. Been there, done that, got the miles.

Jon Udell asks three questions about the spontaneous integration observed in his LibraryLookup project. I’ll take a stab at answering them.

Why was this unexpected?. Because it wasn’t planned. 8-)

In what environment would it be taken for granted?. I’d say that any environment in which it was both possible and simple.

How do we create that environment?. Eschew data hiding. Make all data available with a simple mechanism.