Web Things, by Mark Baker

“It’s either got to be simplified, or radically rethought.”
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Hugh gets it. Perhaps a little heavy on the ontology side of things, but yup, +1.
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It’s good to see John leaning towards REST. As for service description, I suppose having some use cases would help me understand the perceived need for one.
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One stop shopping for REST-heads.
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“Today we cannot afford to build IT assets that are not composable”.
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“When Google changes the links on this web page, Google changes my writing, without any input from me, and for commercial gain that certainly doesn’t benefit me, or SecurityFocus…” Notice how the argument of the AutoLink detractors boil down to “What’s
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Yahoo opts for the Web, not Web services.
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“When you sit down to write a description language for REST services (a IDL or WSDL for REST), you discover that doing so is unnecessary.” Absolutely. The application state machine needs describing (at runtime), not the services (at design time).
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WWW2005 Developer’s Day CFP
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Please consider submitting something! Eye candy, RESTful services, Semantic Web, and yes, even Web services stuff… As long as it’s of interest to developers!

Call for Participation
Developers' Day
World Wide Web Conference 2005
Feb 28, 2005

Developer's Day at WWW2005 promises to be the most exciting yet.  We
have arranged a keynote talk by Makoto Murata and two special all day
sessions for those interested in dynamic Web Design.   However, to make
the day even more exciting, we are soliciting ideas for topics and
presentations.   In particular, we are requesting proposals for
individual presentations or, preferably, multi-talk tracks.  It is
expected that four or five parallel sessions will be offered, with
presentations in each focusing on tools and techniques for the World
Wide Web.  Preferred tracks and presentations will be of interest to a
wide range of participants working on Web-related development.

Potential topics and tracks may be for a particular area of Web
development -- Web Services, Semantic Web, RDF or XML tools, etc. -- or
for cross-cutting topics that may be of interest to those in multiple
areas -- forms, compound document and multimedia integration, so-called
"rich web apps" making innovative use of Javascript, new developments in
search tools, best and/or advanced practices in Web application
development, etc.

Submissions should be in the form of an abstract of no more than 500
words for an individual presentation.  For multiple-presentations or
tracks, please be sure to indicate the approximate length and how many
presentations, and include up to a 1/2 page on each planned
presentation.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis with a final deadline of
March 25 2005.

The Developer Day 2005 home page is; http://www2005.org/dday/
Submissions should be sent to chair_dev@www2005.org