It has come to be accepted that a technology start out as an overhyped novelty. The problem is that there is so much concern with what people might do, and precious little concern about constructing relatively few, tightly focussed usage scenarios. The result is a standard you could apply to most anything, but which soon demonstrates, does few things well enough to have bothered.

Posted by: (the other)JS on July 31, 2002 06:26 AM

 

We will be using WebServies in my workplace (Financial Services) in the future mainly because it will allow us to share functionality internally in a more efficient manner.

I have been playing with publicly available WebServices (google and amazon) and have just published a sample site that makes use of the Amazon services to do something more than just provide a sub-standard interface to amazon.com

Why not take a look and let me know if its worthwhile?

Posted by: Mac on July 31, 2002 08:59 AM

 

Instead of topamazon, I'd rather see: those books [choose a guru from the menu] turns to most often. Not what they think, or own, but pull off the dusty bookshelf and refer to. The difference between data and information: data is what book is purchased, information is what books get dog-eared from use.

Value added? I'd like to purchase a book which has notes [choose a guru from the menu] scribbled in the margins of their copy. ...Or took to a conference on the subject covered by the book, and got this or that fantastic idea they used on this or that project.

To me this demonstrates what we have (data processing to the Nth degree) compared to what we should have (information).

Posted by: (the other)JS on July 31, 2002 11:36 AM

 

(the other), I couldn't agree more. I feel like I am stuck in Plato's Cave and occasionally I get visions of what it could and should be. I feel that I am always feebly groping at the shadows of what you're talking about.

Posted by: Mac on July 31, 2002 02:31 PM

 

Xanadu and ZigZag as cure. Well, maybe. <a href='http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020221.html>Cringely thinks so.

Posted by: on July 31, 2002 06:06 PM