Web Things, by Mark Baker

Zimbra, not just AJAX wizards. Nice.
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Who was it who was saying that Web services aren’t RPC? Sigh.
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Makes the connection to Bosworth’s “sloppy” databases bit. Right on.
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Wow, can the man ever churn out prose!

It’s a little bit too fluffy for my liking, but there’s not too much to argue with in there; advertising-supported is long-term viable, lightweight services good, etc…

Interesting tidbit; Web services and REST are each mentioned twice. That’s progress.

“Service Orientation does not prescribe a particular architectural style” Oh?
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I found this example of the old Google XML search API at work, before the SOAP API. View the source. Bring it back!
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Duane reinvents the Web from first principles. Chain yanker or soon-to-be-Web-head?
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“Thompson had put a piece of tape over the part of the card that indicates he is an inmate” Doh!
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“So I say “Death to the Browser” – bring on a real application platform” Yah, best of luck with that dude. “Instead, we have frames and a refresh tag.” Check again.
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The inevitable result of a curious vote at a WAPforum meeting in Feb 2000 (Rome), where work on MMS was approved despite most members wanting to just use email
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