2008-04-22: Web 2.0 as web services
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Post from Jeremy Zawodny- through J. Udell
Infoware
Think of flickr, del.icio.us, youtube etc as web services - both as:
- A web site that provides some useful service that I can interact with using a web browser.
- An application with an API that has been exposed over HTTP using REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP.
These services:
- Only deal with one kind of data
- Simple UI
- Makes extensive use of RSS
- you own your data, but it is exposed (When we push information into shared spaces, data finds data, and people find people, and all sorts of magic happens.)
- Gives all of the objects a URL
Because all have a URL Del.icio.us is the service that can organize these pieces from multiple sites. This is a parallel idea to the one DataFed is built on by wrapping adding a tag allows filtering/aggregation of distributed objects and the RSS feed provides a standard interface to be used in other applications (like WMS,WCS). This may be a hack, if other services are built that can harvest a particular controlled tag from a description of any other service then wouldn't need Del.icio.us to capture these by hand. See Elm City Project.
(Interop stack) accelerators, business processes, infrastructure, politics/geography/economics. http://www.slideshare.net/markpeak/the-world-is-flat/
Infoware - software that you can't download and even if you could would have no value, e.g. Google.
