26Aug2008
Filed under: Web 2.0
Author: JW
- Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]
I put together a list of the practice areas that Web apps need to leverage these days and it becomes a pretty long list. The Web competency bar continues to climb steeply in recent years, but the rewards for those that do so are potentially very significant.
- Making it stick.: "I’m not dead yet!" – the data center
Patrick Logan has nicely skewered my Data Center R.I.P. with a little Monty Python.
- WOA wins hands-down over SOA in popularity contest | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com
A pretty big change from a few months ago when WOA was getting lukewarm reception. Lots of interesting things afoot since I last spent major time with this topic, will need to blog it. In the meantime, spread the word.
- Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center? | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Here's my take on Amazon's Elastic Block Store and what it brings to the table to enable a true cloud data center. It'll take 2-5 years but a large part of your data centers are best run elsewhere, if you can find a way to deal with the security, control, governance, and risk issues.
- mycrocosm
An interesting new Web service from MIT that lets users share snippets of information about their lives in the form of beautiful statistical graphs. One of the first social statistics applications?
- InfoQ: InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay
Cloud computing case study: NASDAQ is running some of its market-facing apps using the cloud. Their using S3 and AIR and removing the middle-tier entirely to eliminate the bottleneck of a middleman. Very innovative and an example of excellent Web-Oriented Architecture.

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