Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-19 Thread Phil Winstanley
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback Kim, I was sitting in a meeting at Microsoft a few months ago when someone from Redmond used the BBC’s site to explain RSS to a bunch of other Microsoft people – that pa

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-18 Thread Kim Plowright
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback Crikey!   Hello Phil, and nice to see you decloak (as it is to hear from all of these new names, by the way)   Those are lovely explainations, thankyou. (incidentally, i&#

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-18 Thread J.P.Knight
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Matthew Somerville wrote: [...] Amazon launched their web services in 2002, and I remember "mash-ups" being created back then - e.g. Amazon Light. I was "mashing up" Gopher interfaces mining into our text based BLS OPAC at the University back in 92/93. Is that too old sko

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-18 Thread Phil Winstanley
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback Hi all, This is my first post to the list but I have enjoyed this thread so wanted to contribute. I’m an ASP.NET developer and I’m heavily involved with the Micr

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Armitage
Quoting Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AJAX - Is currently the best way to build responsive, in-browser application like experiences for performing actions on data* - AJAX is more than just a scripting language; it too can be the 'appropriate technology' for an API Hmn. AJAX is a good excu

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Gordon Joly
HTML - At the root of everything, standards compliant, with presentation separate from content. HTML? You mean I to switch back from XHTML? Since when?!??! :-) Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion gr

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Edwards
Hi Kim, I have read all the replies, and I must say, as an outsider to the BBC and the Web2 concept... that the technical jargon in the list is overwhelming and therefore confusing to me. I respect the fact that my point of view is therefore pretty unenlightening, but it would seem that the pri

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Kim Plowright
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Cole Sent: 17 July 2006 15:44 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback Way back in the mists of the late 20th century I attended a meeting wi

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Pete Cole
Way back in the mists of the late 20th century I attended a meeting with someone from Factual and Learning about the Digital Curriculum - at a time when it was still a thought. We suggested that it would be really useful if teachers could take the "content" that the BBC produced and "re-arrange" it

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Ferne
On 17 Jul 2006, at 14:40, Kim Plowright wrote: - AJAX is more than just a scripting language; it too can be the 'appropriate technology' for an API Umm, to a techie that's a bit confused: * Ajax isn't a scripting language, Javascript is (the 'j' in Ajax). * An 'Ajax' API doesn't really make s

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
> Maybe I'm reading more into this than you meant to imply but > I think it's a mistake to assume that REST can't scale and > that SOAP is required for 'serious' work. Arguably REST > scales _better_ than SOAP. Apparently; "querying Amazon using REST is 6 times faster than with SOAP" [1] The

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Kim Plowright
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Dicken Sent: 17 July 2006 10:57 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback Daniel Morris wrote: > Firstly, the list seems fairly comprehensive and easy to r

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Gordon Joly
At 11:49 +0100 17/7/06, Richard Hyett wrote: Listening to a podcast last week, Gillmor Daily, here the argument being advanced was that web 2.0 was a fairly misleading term and one to avoid. It was argued that the real change occured around 2001 with XML and more recently RSS. The community a

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Armitage
w do I ensure that those technologies get used appropriately internally? We don't want them just for the sake of having them... ____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: 14 July 2006 20:02 To: bac

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Phil Whelan
Matthew Somerville wrote: > "new technologies"? Blogs (including online diaries) that you can > leave comments on have been around since 1998; RSS 1999. Wikipedia > launched in 2001. XMLHTTP was invented by Microsoft for Outlook Web > Access 2000. eBay launched its API in November 2000, Amazon laun

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Ferne
Kim Lots of good stuff in there. On 14 Jul 2006, at 17:08, Kim Plowright wrote: Common Engines APIs * REST for Quick, light and elegant 1 SOAP for the heavy corporate lifting Maybe I'm reading more into this than you meant to imply but I think it's a mistake to assume that REST can't scale

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Kim Plowright
e of having them... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard LockwoodSent: 14 July 2006 20:02To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback I thin

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Somerville
Kim Plowright wrote: I'd be really interested to hear what everyone here thinks. Am I missing things? It reads like a very good list, certainly... of what I'd expect *any* website to do! :-) Perhaps it's just me and the whole Web2.0 blah, but certainly anything in the Code section (apart from

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Hyett
Listening to a podcast last week, Gillmor Daily, here the argument being advanced was that web 2.0 was a fairly misleading term and one to avoid. It was argued that the real change occured around 2001 with XML and more recently RSS. The community argument doesn't ring true for me, though I wish it

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Somerville
Phil Whelan wrote: Web 2.0 for me is the movement of the web from something you read to something you participate in, and the new web-communities helping to build sites with which they have an interest. This is enabled by new technologies such as blogs, readers leaving comments, voting, mash-up

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
edia.org/wiki/API -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Dicken Sent: 17 July 2006 10:57 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback AJAX is a

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Phil Whelan
Web 2.0 everyone is the author.   Cheers, Phil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel MorrisSent: 17 July 2006 10:31To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some fe

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Gordon Joly
At 09:10 +0100 17/7/06, Daniel Morris wrote: Hi, Client Side Technologies used appropriately e.g.. Flash elements on pages, not flash pages Flash content should be sub-addressable? Also, tables for tabular data. I'll try and come up with more suggestions later :-) -dan AJAX for AJ

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Luke Dicken
Daniel Morris wrote: > Firstly, the list seems fairly comprehensive and easy to read. > Secondly, apologies if there are obvious answers to this email, i'm new... > > How come REST API gets mentioned, but ajax doesn't? > > I know ajax is an overused buzzword at the moment, but it is > unavoida

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
Title: Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback Firstly, the list seems fairly comprehensive and easy to read. Secondly, apologies if there are obvious answers to this email, i'm new...   How come REST API gets mentioned, but ajax doesn't?    I

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
Title: Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback Hi,   Client Side Technologies used appropriately e.g.. Flash elements on pages, not flash pages Flash content should be sub-addressable?   Also, tables

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-15 Thread Gordon Joly
Nah much better to contemplate. http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/ Web 1.0 <-> Web 2.0 DoubleClick > Google AdSense Ofoto > Flickr Akamai > BitTorrent mp3.com > Napster Britannica Online > Wikipedia personal websites > blogging evite > upcoming.org an

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-14 Thread Luke Dicken
Richard Lockwood wrote: > I think you've hit the nail on the head Kim. "Web 2.0" is buzzwords, > buzzwords, and more buzzwords, but ultimately, means nothing. > > > Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability > > Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get ri

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-14 Thread Richard Lockwood
I think you've hit the nail on the head Kim.  "Web 2.0" is buzzwords, buzzwords, and more buzzwords, but ultimately, means nothing.   > Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability > Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them > T