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Saturday, April 27, 2002
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Hugh Pyle provides an excellent description Edge Services:
In the edge services model there is no Big Central Server, just a whole lot of PCs (at the edge of the network: behind firewalls, on roaming WiFi connections, DHCP-assigned IP addresses, all the usual garbage - you generally can't find a simple IP address to call into these machines). By building SOAP interfaces to the services these PCs can implement - and there's a whole lot of interesting services they can provide - you get a new world of interop between Groove and Web. The magic sauce is somewhere in the middle, using well-known relay points (multiple, many) to be able to call these devices's services (and receive callback events from them) regardless where the endpoints are.
This is one of the ways that has made this project so challenging, and interesting. Most Web Services models are an extension of Client/Server architectures. The service lives in the center, and you call it from the edge. At Groove we are all about decentralization which leaves the power with the user. So I can have my information accessible from anywhere, but it is always under my control and on my devices. Of course, I do have to have a device connected somewhere to access it. But hopefully you get the concept. [John Burkhardt]
4:42:40 PM 
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I wasn't going to write about this but I have a bunch of emails. About a week ago, after yet another online confrontation, I quit Radio. I stopped completly. Why? Because its not worth it. Despite Winer's hype, Radio and Blogs are nothing more than a glorified electronic diary. There is nothing earth-shattering here. What's worse, is a whole bunch of geeks (who have little social skills) unleashed in a public forum where they can show even worse behavior, attacking others and trampeling things. Where are the checks? Who checks the facts? There were and continue to be totally false things posted by people on a variety of things. Who watches the community? What if someone gets hurt? Well, the attitude is probably one of "obtaining a thicker skin." Is that what we really want? I don't think so. That's just an excuse for bad behavior.
Also, as Chris Sells pointed out many people get trapped up in the process of commenting on Radio and blogging in general. "Look, isn't this cool" and such just point out to the usual geek thing of crying for attention. I know. I was doing it too. Spending 4 hours a day with this. I'll tell you what I learned. I love my 4 year old son Jonathan and my wife a whole lot more than any of this. And that's what counts. Arguing with people endlessely here does little and creates a whole lot of distress, Loving my son a whole lot more and spending that time with him creates a whole lot more in life.
1:00:22 PM
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