O'Reillynet has an interesting piece by Tim O'Reilly about what the thirteen-thirtyseven geeks are saying are the technologies to watch in the days to come.
The roll-call is low on revelations, but towards the end Tim goes into a discussion of the relationship between custom web-spidering and web-services. The gist of it being that we're going to see a lot more of the big database sites (amazon, imdb) providing low-to-no cost web-services similar to that which Google seems to be planning on offering with the recent announcement of it's beta RPC interface and API.
Tim also covers many of the same topics from a slightly different perspective in this interview with infoworld.
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On a sinister but slightly more sinister theme, Microsoft plans to unveil it's .Net support for the Mac platform next week.
Posted by Dan on 10 Apr 2002 at 07:04 PM
On a similar not sinister theme!!!
Posted by Dan on 10 Apr 2002 at 07:06 PM
I dunno about it being sinister as such. .NET looks pretty interesting to me, the only thing I find sinister about it is the subscription based systems that Microsoft seems to be moving towards. I think the plan to support the mac can only be a good thing. At the very least it'll bring another audience to the table who can question any dodgy elements which appear in the .NET gameplan.
Posted by Anonymous on 10 Apr 2002 at 07:24 PM
I dunno the idea of giving Microsoft control over any web 'standard' sound slike a bad idea t me, no matter how good the technology is itself.
Posted by Dan on 10 Apr 2002 at 09:00 PM