Archive for the 'Enterprise Web 2.0' Category



Michael Kimsal reviews Google’s App Engine and calls out Project Zero as being likely candidate for IBM to join the trend towards cloud computing…
I, too, would love to see Project Zero in the cloud as well.

From Amazon SimpleDB homepage:
GET, PUT or DELETE items in your domain

Sounds RESTful? It isn’t. In fact, when Amazon’s SimpleDB went public on Friday, December 12, 2007, the opening paragraphs on its homepage claimed it "RESTfulness". Now, after community backlash, the homepage seems to be mysteriously lacking such a claim and you must dig deeper into [...]

Dion Hinchcliffe nails a growing sentiment among many over the last few year(s). There have been enormous unncessary resources spent on the WS-* vs. REST debate. And whether what flavor you side with, the movement REST pundits push, sometimes vehemently, is summarized by Hinchcliffe as…”leveraging the fundamental strengths of the Web to turn applications into platforms.” [1]
I’ve heard [...]