Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Credit Card Micropayments. Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch has analyzed the economics of Apple's iTunes music service. It's based on aggregation of multiple small purchases within a "window" of time. [Source: Scott Loftesness]
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:24:19 PM 
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The Semantic Web Will Be Loosely Coupled. "The Semantic Web will advance the relational database model and overturn old ways of organizing information, Berners-Lee said. Rather than listing information in tree structures, it will create a Web based on the relationships of people, places and things as they exist in the real world...The Semantic Web doesn't follow a document model; instead, it models real-world things, said the director of the W3C and inventor of the World Wide Web." [Source: ADTmag.com]
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:38:18 PM
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Debuzzifying On Demand (OD). In the latest ZapFlash, Jason Bloomberg explains the pieces of OD, what the vendors are doing in the world of OD, and how OD is tied to service-oriented architectures. [Source: ZapThink]
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:18:23 PM
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CNET Radio Direct on Web Services. For five days during the week of May 19, CNET will deliver information about web service via streaming Internet audio. They're looking for case studies. Tell 'em I sent you.
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:57:26 PM
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Microsoft Admits Passport Breach. The important issue here isn't this particular incident, but rather the inherent risk of *any* system that stores or shares identity data. No matter what the vendors tell you, your personal data will never be as safe with them as it is under your own control, so long as you use best practices. Federated identity isn't about benefits for consumers. It's all about merchant revenues. [Source: Allen Weinberg, Glenbrook Partners]
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:41:10 PM
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InfoPath and the Chasm. "But what Moore couldn't have forseen back in 1991 — and Microsoft's present-day strategists haven't recognized — is that in today's networked world, a visionary doesn't need the existing infrastructure of a large enterprise to impose adoption...As Jon [Udell] notes, 'The most vibrant XML applications today are coming from the grassroots up.'" [Source: Phil Wainewright]
Some very interesting points in Phil's essay, although I don't agree that the grass-roots phenomenon somehow invalidates Moore's chasm concept. After all, Microsoft has rarely been an innovator or early adopter themselves. The company almost always waits until someone else invests on getting a new idea as close to the chasm as possible. In the case of the Internet, Microsoft admits they waited too long. It crossed the chasm without them.
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:53:52 PM
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Writing Applications in PowerPoint? According to Carroll Pleasant of web services early adopter Eastman Chemical, using development tools from NextAxiom is "the closest thing to a Powerpoint-to-VB compiler that you're ever going to see." The quote comes from a good, detailed case study by Eric Parizo at searchWebServices. [Source: Phil Wainewright]
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:36:07 PM
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