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BlogsTags > servicesThe demise of Google Reader: Stability as a serviceBy Mike LoukidesMarch 21, 2013 Om Malik’s brief post on the demise of Google Reader raises a good point: If we can’t trust Google to keep successful applications around, why should we bother trying to use their new applications, such as Google Keep? Given the … Instagram: On being the productBy Mike LoukidesDecember 18, 2012 Let me start by saying that I’m not an Instagram user, and never have been. So I thought I could be somewhat dispassionate. But I’m finding that hard. The latest change to their terms of service is outrageous: their statement … Four short links: 22 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 22, 2012 Mark Your Territory — Urine integration for Foursquare. (via Beta Knowledge) TL;DR — news summaries. Finally. Zombie Ideas and Online Instruction — The repeated return of mistaken ideas captures well my experiences with technologies in schools and what I have … Strata Week: AWS and Rackspace, comparedBy Jenn WebbNovember 2, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Rackspace vs Amazon As Rackspace continues to ramp up its services to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) — this week, announcing a partnership with … Why StreetEasy rolled its own maps March 19, 2012 Google's decision to start charging for its Maps API is leading some companies to mull other options. In this interview, StreetEasy's Sebastian Delmont explains why and how his team made a change. Why Uber's data fascinates a neuroscientistBy David SimsMarch 6, 2012 Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek's interest in networks and nodes goes beyond the human brain. Here, he discusses the data generated by car-service company Uber and how the company has influenced his research. Why Uber's data fascinates a neuroscientist March 6, 2012 Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek's interest in networks and nodes goes beyond the human brain. Here, he discusses the data generated by car-service company Uber and how the company has influenced his research. Four short links: 24 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 24, 2011 Tangle -- open source Javascript library for creating slider-type widgets in web pages, with built-in updating of other web elements. This is fantastic for exploring "what-if" scenarios. Check out the demos. Location-Based Security -- The researchers have created a customized version of Android controlled by a “policy engine” on a server. The Android devices use Bluetooth and near-field communications... API Versioning
By George ReeseOctober 12, 2011 API versioning is something a lot of API designers don't worry about until the second version of their API. API versioning, however, is a controversial subject with strong opinions on both version representation and behavior. New tools and techniques for applying climate dataBy Michael FerrariAugust 31, 2011 Climate cycles, machine learning and improved models were all part of the discussions at the first New York Academy of Sciences Workshop on Climate Informatics. New tools and techniques for applying climate data
By Michael FerrariAugust 31, 2011 Climate cycles, machine learning and improved models were all part of the discussions at the first New York Academy of Sciences Workshop on Climate Informatics. Apple and a web-free cloud 
By Alasdair AllanJune 16, 2011 From custom chips, to the data centers backing its new iCloud effort, Apple is committed to controlling the end-user experience. The web has no place in their vision. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative ForumBy Andy OramJune 10, 2011 A major bash by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine--together with the NIH, EPA, and others--drew hundreds of people yesterday in Washington, DC to discuss the use of government data in health care. Some of the interesting apps on display, and a look toward next steps. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative Forum
By Andy OramJune 10, 2011 A major bash by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine--together with the NIH, EPA, and others--drew hundreds of people yesterday in Washington, DC to discuss the use of government data in health care. Some of the interesting apps on display, and a look toward next steps. 3 big challenges in location development April 14, 2011 With the goal of indexing the entire web by location, Fwix founder Darian Shirazi has had to dig in deep to location-based development issues. In this interview, Shirazi discusses challenges he sees in location and how Fwix is addressing them. Why location data is a mess, and what can be done about it March 9, 2011 Usage restrictions and ever-expanding datasets make location data hard to manage. In the following interview, SimpleGeo's Chris Hutchins explains how companies and developers can address the location mess. Four short links: 8 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 8, 2010 Send Us Your Thoughts (YouTube) -- from the excellent British comedians Mitchell and Webb comes this take on viewer comments in the news. (via Steve Buttry's News Foo writeup) Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs -- with the death of WS-* and their prolix overbearing complexity, the difference between REST and basic XML RPC is almost... Four short links: 5 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 5, 2010 S4 -- S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data. Open-sourced (Apache license) by Yahoo!. RDF and Semantic Web: Can We Reach Escape Velocity? (PDF) -- spot-on presentation from the data.gov.uk linked data advisor. It nails, clearly and in only 12 slides, why... Four short links: 15 October 2010
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 15, 2010 Mechanical Turk Requester Activity: The Insignificance of the Long Tail -- For Wikipedia we have the 1% rule, where 1% of the contributors (this is 0.003% of the users) contribute two thirds of the content. In the Causes application on Facebook, there are 25 million users, but only 1% of them contribute a donation. [...] The lognormal distribution of... The potential of Healthcare.gov
By Andy OramJuly 1, 2010 Healthcare.gov from the Department of Health and Human Services provides an example of the goals behind opening up data--not data for data's sake, but data as a tool people can use to get more involved in policy, have an impact on civic life, and hopefully make their own lives better along the way. Mårten Mickos discusses the strategy at Eucalyptus Systems
By Andy OramJune 22, 2010 Mickos responds to such questions as whether private clouds are needed, whether they are too hard to manage, and whether the Amazon API is the best foundation for Eucalyptus. European Union starts project about economic effects of open government data
By Andy OramJune 11, 2010 Open source advocate Marco Fioretti has just announced the start of a study on open data for the European Union, with a focus on economic benefits for local businesses. Related surveys are also mentioned. Benefits and Impediments to Health IT
By Sarah SorensenJune 2, 2010 HealthIT can help broaden the reach of medical expertise and care to rural areas. It can support skill building and improve access to information and resources for medical professionals to better equip them to diagnose and treat those who walk through their clinic's door... Consumer-Driven Schematron Schemas
By Rick JelliffeApril 3, 2010 Ian Robinson has a great 2008 article Service-Oriented Development with Consumer-Driven Contracts and a follow-up A Contract Vocabulary that turns normal thinking about schemas on its head. His idea, in the context of SOA systems with a limited number of... Flash Platform Services: Social Service
By Russ FergusonMarch 25, 2010 More frequently clients want to add social networking capability to projects. For example, using a persons Twitter or MySpace account for authentication. Or to have the application update a persons status and email a friend. All of these features are... YQL and Flash Platform Services' Distribution Service
By Russ FergusonMarch 22, 2010 The concept of an item online going "viral" is one that clients, developers and advertisers alike would love to hear about a project they are working on. In the case that something does become popular, how easy would it be... Principles for Standardized REST Authentication
By George ReeseDecember 26, 2009 I'm tired of wasting brain cycles figuring out whether a given vendor requires you to sign your query before or after you URL encode your parameters and I am fed up with vendors who insist on using interactive user credentials to authenticate API calls. Here's a set of standards that I think should be in place for any REST authentication scheme. Managed Services Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
By Chris JosephesOctober 13, 2009 Hopefully, you weren't stuck in a New Zealand airport with a T-Mobile Sidekick. Adobe Announces "Flash Platform Services"
By Andrew TriceSeptember 22, 2009 Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social. Cloud API Wars - Where is the security arsenal?
By Subra KumaraswamySeptember 11, 2009 Last week was an exciting week for the Virtualization and Cloud customers and potential adopters. During VMWorld 2009, a handful of announcements by the cloud computing "picks" and "shovel" providers marked the beginning of the "Cloud API War" -... Data chef: SPSS Tripe Consommé
By Uche OgbujiMay 1, 2009 The data chef discusses translation of data from SPSS format, for those who don't have a licensed copy at hand. Flex 101: RPC Basics
By Andrew TriceMay 1, 2009 When building Flex applications, it is important to understand how to get data into and out of your applications and remote procedure calls (rpc). In this post, I'll try to shed some light on HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject classes and their usage. Demystifying Web ServicesBy Amy BlankenshipApril 15, 2009 I had my first encounter with web services about two years ago. I was contracting at the time, and Adobe had just announced the end of development of the software where I had most of my reputation, Authorware. I needed to retool my skills to Adobe Flex, and I needed to convey to potential clients what kind of skills they could expect as I was retooling. I decided I wanted my company website to reflect the bleeding edge of what I was doing. But I was also devoting a lot of time to blogging and participating in online newsgroups to try to spread the word, and I just didn't have time to manually update my site as often as I felt I needed to. Using the Cloud for Disaster Recovery
By George ReeseApril 12, 2009 Few companies have a solid disaster recovery plan and fewer companies actually verify their DR plans are working. One of the often missed benefits of cloud computing is that it makes rapid disaster recovery with minimal data loss extremely cost effective and enables the automation of those processes that can be tested often using automated tools. [AWS:ElasticMapReduce] Google-sized Parallel Computing on a You-sized Budget
By M. David PetersonApril 2, 2009 @ http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/ you'll find an interesting new entry into Amazon's utility-based web service offerings: Elastic MapReduce. eGov Watch: The Importance of Data.Gov 
By Kurt CagleMarch 26, 2009 The Illinois River is a slow moving, meandering waterway that originates out of Lake Michigan, flows beneath downtown Chicago, then cuts through the rich Illinois topsoil as it wends its way to Peoria (giving the area its distinctive river bluffs formation) then through the middle of the state until it finally meets the Mississippi river at Alton, Illinois, on the Missouri border. Given where it begins and ends, the Illinois sees a lot of river traffic, from barges laden with grain to shipping containers to steam-powered paddle-wheel boats that evoke the memories of Mark Twain. Blame the Credit Card Franchise: Criminals on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute) Cloud
By Nitesh DhanjaniMarch 11, 2009 Amazon EC2 is an extraordinarily powerful infrastructure available to anyone with a stolen credit card. Even if someone is able to use the EC2 platform for a few hours with a stolen credit card, he or she will be able to initiate a vicious cycle that may become impossible to halt. Developing Mashup Air Apps: Yahoo Maps Web Services
By Marco CasarioMarch 10, 2009 Excerpted from Chapter 18 of the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook. Mashup applications are based on the possibility of consuming remote data sources, and to create one, you need a good understanding of the APIs available. AIR offers even greater possibilities for creating mashup applications and widgets. With AIR, you can go beyond all the sandbox security of the browser and add advanced features to the application to interact with the file system or local storage with SQLite. This chapter demonstrates how to integrate the Flickr, Yahoo Maps, and Twitter web services to create desktop mashup applications with AIR. Developing Mashup Air Apps: Consuming Flickr Web Services
By Marco CasarioMarch 10, 2009 Excerpted from Chapter 18 of the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook. Mashup applications are based on the possibility of consuming remote data sources, and to create one, you need a good understanding of the APIs available. AIR offers even greater possibilities for creating mashup applications and widgets. With AIR, you can go beyond all the sandbox security of the browser and add advanced features to the application to interact with the file system or local storage with SQLite. This chapter demonstrates how to integrate the Flickr, Yahoo Maps, and Twitter web services to create desktop mashup applications with AIR. Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service
By Andrew TriceMarch 6, 2009 For this post, I decided to change things up a bit. Rather than go explore complex application patterns or data visualization, we're going back to basics. We will be covering how to make a basic application that makes a call to a web service and retrieves data. Service Communications with Silverlight
By John PapaMarch 1, 2009 Silverlight can talk to a number of types of web services using REST or SOAP, returning JSON or XML, or even communicating with RSS feeds. Its important to evaluate the type of service you need before developing it. Getting Started with Silverlight 2 
By Kathryn BarrettFebruary 18, 2009 You've learned how Silverlight can produce stylish interfaces and highly interactive applications in a variety of browsers, and now you want to build a Silverlight application. Not just a bouncing ball, an embedded video, or a spiffy-looking series of buttons, but a walking, talking, fully functional line-of-business application. Of course, you still want the snazzy interface, too. The good news is that you can have it all with Silverlight 2. The following excerpt is from John Papa's new book, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2. Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX
By Kurt CagleJanuary 24, 2009 I've been banging on the RESTful services/XRX bandwagon for a while now, and the good folks at O'Reilly have kindly consented to let me get out the entire trap drum set for an O'Reilly Webinar entitled "Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX". SOA is Dead? It's About Time!
By Kurt CagleJanuary 13, 2009 Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group raised quite a few hackles in the IT press yesterday when she asserted that SOA is Dead. Anne has the chops to talk on the subject - beyond her respectable career as an SOA Analyst for the Burton Group, she was also a former CTO of Systinet, an SOA governance company that eventually was bought up by Hewlett Packard, and was one of the early architects of the WS-* architecture ... so when she says "It's dead, Jim", people listen. Why the AWS Console is Good for Cloud Tool Vendors
By George ReeseJanuary 9, 2009 The release of the Amazon Web Services console has had a number of people predicting doom for cloud tools providers. On the contrary, by removing a barrier to experimentation that has kept people out of the cloud, the Amazon Web Services console should bring more people in the cloud and benefit tools providers whose value propositions are beyond Amazon's core value proposition. SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business
By David A. ChappellJanuary 8, 2009 In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". Live WebCast 1/8/2009 - SIlverlight and ADO.NET Data Services
By John PapaJanuary 7, 2009 This Thursday I will be joining the MSDN geekSpeak crew to do a live webcast discussing Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. Registration is free ... Analysis 2009: Application Services come into their own
By Kurt CagleJanuary 6, 2009 As cloud computing goes, so do two complementary technologies - application services, and web services. It's easier to split these into two distinct sections, though it should be kept in mind that they are simply different manifestations of an... Analysis 2009: The Web Services Era Begins in Earnest
By Kurt CagleJanuary 6, 2009 (Warning, this gets technical). This may seem a rather odd statement - after all, "web services" in the traditional SOA sense have been around for the last decade, give or take a few years. I believe, however, that while... Through A Glass (Very) Darkly: XML 2009 (Part 1 of 2)
By Kurt CagleDecember 22, 2008 A year later, the IT industry was in the worst recession that it had faced in fifteen years, a time that became known as the Tech Nuclear Winter. Senior programmers with thirty years of experience and post graduate degrees - people who sat on standards committees boards and often served to shape the industry - could be found at coffee shops "working on their next projects" while waiting for a job to open up. 1 to 50 of 111 Next Stay Connected
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