Jon has a knack for putting into words what I’ve tried to say before about UDDI, and indeed the superior composability of Web-friendly services over Web services.
That’s the name of the latest operation added to the Google Adwords API. Yes, it does what you’d expect with that name; it returns an http URI upon which you invoke GET to get your compressed report.
What a totally bizarre hybrid of RPC and hypermedia. Wow.
Come on Google, you’re supposed to be leading the charge. Right? Then sh*t or get off the pot, as they say.
A small group of us just wrapped up a ScheduledTopicChat on the topic of the relationship between RDF Forms and the SPARQL protocol, as it relates to an issue I raised with the DAWG WG. Here’s the chat description and discussion.
The end result is that Dan Connolly (DAWG chair) now gets what I’m talking about and realizes the advantages. The downside is that the impact of the required change would likely be too great at this time, so will have to be introduced later. Still, it’s nice to finely get an esoteric point of Web architecture across to someone; doubly nice too, that it was to one of my heroes of the Web.