Radio UserLand Notes

Cristian Vidmar returns to blogging with a stellar post called "Movable Data". Starting from Dave Winer mini-rant about Web 2.0, Cristian explains the details in a way that is "simple", the central theme of his and Dave's posts.

Well, not exactly but the web as a platform owes a lot to RSS as the first mainstream example of movable data: a simple and safe way to make human-understandable data available to any computer and application, anywhere. Movable data, with both its technical and social impacts, is more than anything else the roots of the Web 2.0 revolution.

He goes on to make several fantastic points like:

• "Web 2.0 is keeping things simple (like Dave says in the same post) among many other things by making all software speak the same language."
• "The architecture I’m working at now has XML and XML-RPC everywhere, no bit of data gets in or out of any component in the system in any different format or using any other protocol. And even if it is harder to implement (keeping things simple is always hard), it makes everything simpler than ever: any player able to play with movable data is welcome, all platforms and languages are on the same level, no change on any component’s internals impacts on others."
• "The API sets the rules of the game."

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