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Monday 2004-10-18 Web of Services Historical social software Like most Internet phenomena, the latest fad "social software" has been around for a while -- Christopher Allen presents a detailed timeline of social software. permalink Wednesday 2004-06-09 Web of Services Not Witty There was nothing to laugh about Witty worm: Witty represents a new generation of malcode: written by a motivated, skilled, and malicious individual. Witty's author is the first to combine both skill and substantial malice. The author had some motive which lead, for him, to desire a destructive effect. Witty was written by an expert and, unless caught, he could do it again.Ironically, Witty was made possible due to a buffer overflow in a security product. Another step down the path of losing the Internet? [via Bruce Schneier and boingboing] permalink Sunday 2004-01-18 Web of Services Undemanded computing Lately all the big firms of computer industry have taken up "on demand, seamless, ubiquitous, autonomous, utility, organic, real-time" computing made up with web services and grids computing. Problem is that none of it is true today and tomorrow and next year. Indeed, "it is tempting to conclude that the current marketing hype of the big computer firms is meant mostly to obscure the humdrum reality that overall tech spending will not regain the fizz of the bubble era any time soon." permalink Sunday 2003-11-02 Web of Services Data follows jobs While David Lazarus' recent columns about outsourcing and privacy in San Francisco Chronicle below are not directly related to technology of web of services, they nevertheless illustrate privacy, consumer safety, intellectual property and trade relations problems that web of services faces as it becomes more tangled and widespread by technology.
permalink Thursday 2003-10-02 Web of Services More than enough? More to come? OASIS lists following specifications and standards activities related to coordination of messages/transactions, especially in the Web Services arena:
Update: A summary of current state of various standards from W3 mailing list. [via Web Services Strategies] permalink Sunday 2003-08-03 Web of Services QoS Internet2 folks like QoS. Dan Bricklin argues that the Internet does not need QoS. permalink Wednesday 2003-07-30 Web of Services UBF and streaming XML Nobody can recall just how many times various people called for binary XML over the years. If waiting for w3.org's deliberation on this matter is not an option, consider the following alternatives:
Or as many people have pointed out just use gzip. permalink |
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