Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Mozilla vs. IE. Bill Pena writes, "When Mozilla 1.0 came out, C|Net gave it a rather bizarre review, in which they harp on Mozilla's inability to render Internet Explorer-specific web pages. They claim that, since IE is the market leader, pages tailored for IE should be acceptable as Web standard; "That's reality," according to C|Net. That is absolutely insane, dangerous to the very structure of the Web, and biased toward Microsoft's market share and against the health of the industry."
Yup. That's what monopolies are all about, Bill.
Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:53:36 PM 
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Search Me!. I was wandering through my web site's referral logs and found that I come up as the #1 results on Yahoo! if you search for "opionions on liberty and security." Let's here it for typos. I'm #169 out of ~3,300 on Google if you just search for "opionions." It's always good to be #1 at something.
Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:14:32 PM
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More on UDDI. As part of my reasearch for the new book, I had an excuse to call Mike Clark, a senior analyst with Lucin in Whales, and learn more about SalCentral and their work with UDDI. SalCentral wants to be a broker (publisher or distributor) for web services. The site currently lists ~350 web services that are available for public use. All of the web services listed on the site use SOAP and have WSDL files. Some use the SOAP RPC model and others use the "doc" model, which according to Mike, is the greatest single cause of their support calls. (Many SOAP toolkits such as SOAP::Lite are RPC-only, whereas .NET uses the doc model.)
Mike has an interesting perspective on the recent criticisms of UDDI. Last December, in an article on WebServicesArchitect.com, he wrote, "I believe that currently that UDDI has been misinterpreted as a one-stop shop (similar to a web search engine) for finding, selecting, and keeping track of Web Services and suppliers." UDDI has been criticized for containing all the junk that anyone wants to list there. Mike's point is that this is like criticizing the Internet because it allows anyone to publish anything. Talking to Mike, I had one of those Aha! moments. The problem is that we've placed UDDI at the wrong point in the protocol stack. It's not the equivalent of a Google; it's the equivalent of the Web. UDDI is the "place" where anyone can post structured references to anything. This is as opposed to unstructured information on the Web. As with the Web, there's another layer of value-added services that will organize, rank and otherwise make sense of this data. It's Google on the Web. It will be services like SalCentral for UDDI.
SalCentral has been testing a new in-house tool that crawls UDDI the same way Google crawls the Web. Mike says they've found ~250 valid web services in UDDI, or 42% of those that claim to be there. Many more cool things to come from Lucin and SalCentral. Stay tuned.
Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:42:18 PM
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