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Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Scarily Cool

Jon Udell demonstrates in O'Reilly Network: Services and Links [Jan. 13, 2003] a scarily cool REST web service. The idea of a web service this cool and easy is humbling. It even works (kinda) even with Blogger. Being able to create a useful service without the plumbing necessary in SOAP is somewhat disturbing but something that is also strangely liberating.


Monday, January 13, 2003

Trust and networks

Ross Mayfield's Weblog writes about Cognitive or Emotive Trust. Trust is something that is often overlooked when security issues come up.