Amazon seems to really get the Getting Started should be free aspect of the web, and is clearly targetting the “She has the idea on Wednesday and gets the script working next Monday, and one quarter later, either gives up on the idea or is incredibly rich. Both are good outcomes” developer market.
Meanwhie, Mark Nottingham of Yahoo! is proposing standards for caches which prefer to serve slightly stale content fast in lieu of providing late or broken results.
Update: Keith Gaughan: That ain’t REST. They screwed up the “REST” interface for it exactly the same way as they screwed up the one for SQS and FPS.
I was going to blog about Google Knol but I got a bit creeped out after reading a bit more about it - more on that some other day. Far more interesting though, yesterday Amazon added another huge web service to their AWS offering - this time an...
Amazon’s SimpleDB is something of a disappointment
Don’t get me wrong, SimpleDB [ via ] is quite a good idea, and I especially like the idea of eventual consistency , but my problem is with the interface. If you’re going to advertise something as having a REST interface, you can’t...
Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Overnight Success can’t say that i successfully parsed this one (tags: stevegillmor google apple microsoft rayozzie) max spevack’s blog - drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader interesting Fedora...
If you haven’t read Tim Bray’s “Message from the Web”, take a few minutes to do so now. He spoke at a conference working on an XML schema for accountants, and must have shaken things up with his brief but......
If you haven’t read Tim Bray’s “Message from the Web”, take a few minutes to do so now. He spoke at a conference working on an XML schema for accountants, and must have shaken things up with his brief but......
Late yesterday afternoon I got a request from the folks at Sun for some time this morning to discuss a “material” announcement. The catch? It was before 7 in the morning, my time. Given that I generally don’t stir before 8:30 at the earliest barring...