W3C Announces New Generation of Markup Validator Tool [via The XML Cover Pages] #

Java IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
Q: What is an Infrequently Answered Question? A question is infrequently answered either because few people know the answer or because it is about an obscure, subtle point (but a point that may be crucial to you). #

O'Reilly Network: Web Services We'd Like To See
In a recent CNET article, Margaret Kane reports on Google and Amazon's success with Web services. After Google and Amazon, probably the widest deployed and successful web service is the Blogger API. Then there's all the other Weblog systems like weblogs.com. I can't really count RSS as a web service, although with >10,000 feeds it's probably the most widely implemented XML format. Anyway. In the article, Timothy Appnel suggests a few other companies that ought to expose their core systems as publically accessible web services. eg eBay, PayPal, FedEx, UPS, MapQuest, Yahoo. I bet we can think of a few as well. How about Alexa, IMDB, MSN? Et pssst?
[via jbond's blog at voidstar.com] #

XML-RPC, a mini case study
REST seems shiny and neat to me but incomplete - I'm pulling for it because it seems warm and fuzzy to my ivory tower branes. SOAP seems to try to be nice & clean, but feels grungy and toxic to me and I've always felt a vague sense of unease when walking past its house on the block. In the middle, XML-RPC seems to be the right balance of dirt and acidity to grow things in. #

Comment un Weblog, où une personne écrit seule dans son coin, peut-elle faire partie d'un vaste réseau de connaissances, d'une communauté qui partage les mêmes centres d'intérêts ? La suite de cette excellente mise en perpective des avantages du carnet sur Radio UserLand Francophone. #

Robert McCloskey: I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. C'est cela... [via Quotes of the Day] #

Infoworld brings a special report on the evolution of P2P with lots of Groovy details.
Ce dossier est sur ma liste de lecture à court terme... je suis tout prêt de replonger dans Grovve, en simultané avec jabber... des volontaires pour une expérience d'espace collaboratif Groove en français? Ce qui est dommage c'est que Groove est windows only, du moins pour ce qui est de la riche application client, un pont vers jabber est peut-être possible. Un extrait ramassé rapidement que j'aime particulièrement: You put crypto providers at the edge of the network ... really pump up the level of encryption (...) we decided early on that the best decentralized security architecture leverages smart clients, allowing them to ride on dumb networks.
[le tout via Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] #

It's back: Sun posts download of Solaris 9 x86. Intel version of OS returns. [détails sur InfoWorld: Top News] #

The rebellion will be syndicated. Tantek Celik: "XHTML vs. the world." Bet on the world. [sur dive into mark] #

Macromedia Announces Director MX for Windows, OS X [via BetaNews.Com] #

Ideas for marketing an intranet
D'excellents conseils qui sont surtout reliés... au facteur humain. [via Column Two] #