Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Unintended Loosely-Coupled Consequences. Follow this interesting weblog-based thread. It starts with a thoughful posting by Phil Wainewright in which he looks at BookWatch Plus, which combines web services from Amazon, Google and BookWatch to find the books most frequently mentioned on weblogs around the Internet. It then lists the most popular sites for those books. (Take the time to grok it.)
Phil Windley continues the discussion, quoting Tim O'Reilly, "Innovation will come from APIs that support 'unintended consequences'," and points out himself that, "the same is true of creating good services, making data available in ways that enable future use, and documenting the resulting APIs so that others can use them. Cool things will happen."
Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:51:13 PM 
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the451 on Grand Central. A particularly provocative article by Rachel Chalmers on SearchWebServices. It's a reality check on Grand Central's business model and execution. Along the way, she sheds light on other segments and players including Flamenco Networks, Talking Blocks, Blue Titan and AmberPoint. [Update August 15, 2002 4:30pm: Don't miss Phil Wainewright's comments.]
and Flamenco Networks. Nick Patience, also of the 451, updated the firm's coverage of Flamenco as well.
Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:38:56 AM
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The IBM/Microsoft Duopoly. Eric Knorr covers a lot of ground in this article on ZDNet Tech Update. As far as news, Eric reports on the merger of IBM's Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) and Microsoft's XML Language (XLang) into BPEL4WS. (You'll have to read the article if you care what the acronym stands for. I don't have room to write it out.) He also discusses the new jointly published business-process specs: WS-Coordination and WS-Transactions.
But the meat of Eric's article deals with the current political state of the web-services protocol process. He asks first why development work on three overlapping B2B business protocols--ebXML, the Business Processing Modeling Language (BPML), and the freshly minted Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI)--seems to have been overlooked? "Probably because all three are backed by Sun," he surmises.
Eric also speculates on the significance of control of WS-Security and UDDI having shifted to OASIS as opposed to W3C in the past six weeks. "Could it be because the W3C has been moving in the direction of a royalty-free policy while OASIS is not?" he asks.
Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 2:55:59 AM
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