Web Things, by Mark Baker

Yesterday’s “rich” is tomorrow’s “plain”

Some early Web history from Roy

“Put succinctly, 20 years into an architecture, success is measured by the ability of systems implemented on Day One to interoperate unchanged with systems implemented on Day 20369.” I’ll be there.

Go, Anne. It seems like the mobile crowd are committed to fragmenting the Web. WAP is dead, long live WAP!

Google goes open data? Some services already are (e.g. GMail – can download all email via POP3), but I expect they’ll be very selective with what they open up.

“The Senators Ticket Marketplace is an online service that allows Senators Full Season Package Holders to resell their tickets to fans interested in purchasing premium seat locations for Senators hockey games.” Yeah!

“Your work is not done, but your victory against the evil of pork and Pinot resting on neighboring shelves is secured.”

For air travellers confronted with oxygen masks. Hah!

“While this group is not the first to identify these problems, we do recognize that there may be a single architectural enhancement that solves them all. Namely, a higher-level DNS-based naming scheme (i.e. URIs) coupled with signaling protocols […]”. H

I knew I recognized crummy.com (home of Leonard Richardson of recent REST book fame) from somewhere! I used BeautifulSoup for a project a couple of years ago.

New AC outfitting for international executive-first.

“In short, if SOAP is only useful when used in conjunction with the advanced WS framework, then, for the time being at least, SOAP isn’t useful at all” Ding! Subscribed. P.S. Pete – one word to respond to your last paragraph; Atom.

Duh! Integration isn’t nearly as difficult as the vendors would have you believe.

A book, at last! I wonder what ever happened to Kendall’s book?

“Nobody ever complains about the phone being busy in our house, but woe is me should we suffer DHCP failures” 8-)

“Would that be a legal URI. I think so.” I think so too. URIs can identify *anything*, even context-dependent abstractions like that.

OMG OMG OMG!

“This year, the main new thing that I saw was Ultra-Large Scale. There was a keynote, a panel, and a workshop about this idea.” Was anybody there presenting the Web as an OO ULS system?

Simba Mayfield. Ew.

“SOA is not complex. You are just dumb.” ROTFL!

Cool service, but ceding your *entire* URI space to your users?

Congrats to Joe and the Jotspot team. Gee, big surprise P-)

The dreaded “E18” error strikes my 18 month old Canon IXY 600. Sigh.

“Admitting you were wrong and a willingness to change course is great example, and far too rare in today’s hard-liner “Stay-The-Course” world” +1. A breath of fresh air from the W3C.