Web Things, by Mark Baker

AJAX and AHAH (and REST) job at Apple. Sounds like fun!
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“Generally, it would also be a shame if the W3C — an organisation dedicated to “Leading the Web to its full potential” — were to Recommend something so unsuited to the Web” Mark reveals his true colours, ow! You go, girl!
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“AJAX and BPEL aren’t in bed together yet, but mark my words, it’ll happen. “. Ok Jon, I’ll mark those words; let’s check back in a couple of years. Chances are, technologies not built with the Web in mind, won’t work with the Web. Like BPEL.
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Get your new URI schemes here!
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“Choreography describes the global, peer-to-peer contract between individual components and systems that governs how they interact with one another to solve a common task”. But Charlton, unintended consequences result only when one forgoes the “global vi
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How can you not want to hire Bob DuCharme when he spews gems like this; “each new XML-related technology and HTTP-capable device or platform that crops up around us adds to the combination of things that we can hook up”
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Patrick Logan, on the service-orientated-architecture list;

I ran a short experiment with some folks recently testing interoperability among various WS-* toolkits. What a pain. Very little time was available for actual business value. Then we replaced those WS-* toolkits with simple HTTP clients and servers. After a relatively short amount of time learning the specific APIs we were very soon spending nearly all of our time on business value. We paused periodically to examine what we’d lost by moving from WS-* to pure HTTP. We’ve yet to identify one thing of importance to us.

Via Jon Udell. Damn, I missed this last year. Very nice; AJAXian front end to Tibco. A response to KnowNow I assume?
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“I assume the core enabler here is the Flickr API which allows Qoop to get at my photos. More web services like this, please!”
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“Clearly, the chances for interoperability are greater when you know a fixed uniform interface up front vs. having to somehow discover specialized interfaces and adapt to them on the fly”. Thanks, Steve. See, I (mostly) know what I’m talking about! 8-)
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