Sunday, April 14, 2002

From: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1283 The Google Web API, while hopefully grabbing the attention of more traditional Web Services types, is really for who Tim O'Reilly affectionately refers to as "alpha geeks": The alpha geeks are often a few years ahead of their time. They see the potential in existing technology, and push the envelope to get a little (or a lot) more out of it than its original creators intended. They are comfortable with new tools, and good at combining them to get unexpected results." Google's arrival at the Open Services experimentation party finds them in good company. Userland's Radio Userland is a wellspring of DIY Web Services bootstrapping. Jabber-RPC transports XML-RPC messages over the Jabber instant messaging framework. Watson provides a stunning example of putting a GUI front-end on Web Services. My own Meerkat Open Wire Services provides open URL-line and XML-RPC interfaces which have reaped some unintended yet wonderful uses. 1:50:10 PM     Google APIs, New York Times news, new tools, lot's of stuff is happening in the world of web services and especially in RadioLand. I've started to think about all this as "Reusable Info". What is really happening in these days is that new ways to store, distribute and manage information are seeing the light on almost daily bases. All this will have a huge impact on how we work, live and communicate, but it's not yet very clear how. At evectors we are experimenting every day all these new communication channels, and we try to put some sense in all this from a work environment POV. Basically what is happening is that every piece of information, every idea, every concept, every document is getting its own url. You can access it and reuse it. All borders between you desktop and the rest of the universe are fading, you can borrow the search capabilities of Google's powerful servers from within your favourite application, or you can read news from the New York Times on the same page containing the news from your co-worker telling you what's up today. Hmmm, it's going to be interesting... very interesting. ";->" [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 10:28:39 AM

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