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He says: Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes I completely agree, and would add that nobody, not even the “insiders” really understand what consequences all the different proposed architectures have in terms of, say, who gets empowered and whose…

You gotta love this. Self-inspection wasn’t listed there, though ;-)

Just discovered Dave Winer‘s Outliners.com page, which has lots of screenshots and info on outliners, like MORE. MORE! I remember how devastated I was when I heard reports that Symantec (I think it was, right?) had decided to cease development of MORE. It was such a great program! (Although it never got its screen refreshes…

One point in my recent REST vs. SOAP — there are more nouns than verbs! post I don’t seem to have communicated well. Let me try to augment what I said… Imagine two software systems that both process the same amount of information and generally do the same thing. The first of those systems is…

Like many, I have been pondering the differences in philosophy between REST and SOAP. Other than computational effort and size of the software stack and development effort required to support them, it boils down to a "is it better to structure the world around nouns vs. around verbs" discussion. Last night suddenly an answer came…