On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Web 2.0 ... about ... APIs
My take as well. We are very very slowly emerging a network operating system via these APIs. Where traditional OS had subsystems like persistent store and display service; this network OS has services like credit card operators, photo storage sites, database backed UI widgets, etc. The business relationships that stitch all this together are a larger source of risk than the standards they happen to have been built upon. Very good for O'Reilly - one firm, one API, one O'Reilly book :) All that only makes more urgent the problem of how you take collections from diverse sources each described in ways that were optimal for that source and do something constructive when you mix them together. A problem that is presumably slightly easier if you have a modicum of normal form to rendezvous around, say RDF. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
