Friday, April 19, 2002

abjure: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. abjure [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] 10:30:59 AM    comment []

Andy Sylvester: Radio UserLand Study Guide.  [Scripting News] 10:30:37 AM    comment []

ZDNet: IBM drops Internet patent bombshell. IBM may not have dropped the bombshell the author says they did, but this is definitely a shot across the bow. People who support and use IBM technology must now think carefully before becoming dependent on it. IBM involvement could include hidden costs, barriers to competition, exclusivity, lock-in. The IBM spokesperson who says that all companies behave as IBM does is not correct. Some companies do not seek patent protection for ideas they originate, preferring instead to win or lose in competition based on performance, features and support.  [Scripting News] 10:26:20 AM    comment []

I retired the Google Box on this page. Screen shot.  [Scripting News] 10:25:54 AM    comment []

Amazon goes REST, Google goes SOAP. While the W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) argues about the safety of various flavors of HTTP programming, two icons of the Web have gone different directions: Google toward SOAP, and Amazon (whether they know it or not) toward REST. [xmlhack] If the Amazon API was REST, wouldn't most of the query parameters actually be part of the path ? [Simon Fell] 10:23:44 AM    comment []