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userland's dave winer has an image you can use to link to the animation from your own website.

(i humbly admit that i made it. i am biased.)

OK, some people seem to have found info about what the camera and mic objects are for on the web but I'll post the link again for the people who skipped that posting before moving on: http://radio.weblogs.com/0106797/2002/04/30.html#a 24

1. The default the the camera and mic is to DISALLOW a site to access them.

2. The camera and mic objects are there for something MM has coming down the tubes for a communication server via the Flash player, and the player will PROMPT users before ever granting a site access to their mics and cameras...I've got the beta of the server for testing purposes and it asks me every time (since I never check the little box asking me if I want the player to remember my setting)

3. As many people have pointed out, the Local Storage settings are essentially cookies for Flash. They work in pretty much the same fashion (can only be accessed by the domain that created them, etc.) as cookies, but are only consumable by Flash.

Personally, I wish some of the folks here would give the "Flash is evil" stuff a rest and see more people looking at the GOOD things that can be done with Flash rather than just the worthless drivel that a lot of people have produced, but that's the opinion of someone who works for MM, so I don't have much of a prayer there.

Here is some more information on the features mentioned in the article.

Notice that Camera and Microphone access defaults to off. Anytime that a Flash movie tries to access the camera or microphone the user will be asked to allow or deny the access. The access is domain based.

The Shared Objects are very similar to cookies, the main difference being that you can store entire ActionScript objects, and they can be used with Flash projectors (they don't require a web browser).

If anyone does find a way to exploit any of these features, we would be very interested in hearing about it. (my email is included below).

Macromedia Flash MX Security Whitepaper
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/whitepap ers/security.pdf

Macromedia Flash MX Top 5 topics
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documen ts/mxtopics.htm

Microphone Settings
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/help / icrophone/

Camera Settings
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/help / amera/

LocalStorage Settings
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/help / ocalinfo/

TechNote : What is a Shared Object
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documen ts/local_so.htm

Using Shared Objects in Macromedia Flash MX
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scr ipts/local_shared_object/

Interview with Jeremy Allaire (Macromedia CTO) where he discusses a "new communications server".
http://radio.weblogs.com/0106797/2002/04/30.html#a 24

TechNote : using the local video object in Flash MX
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documen ts/local_imbedded_video.htm

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

you can read what the camera and microphone settings are for here:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0106797/2002/04/30.html#a 24

they are going to be used in a forthcoming flash communications server that will allow you to stream audio and video.

whats the big deal?

All I know is that *I* burn lots of calories yelling at my browser trying loading yet another Flash page.

Flash: Giving Electronica Music a Bad Name Since 1996. ;)

When you're riding along and you lean forward more to go faster and you start approaching the maximum speed the Segway makes certain tones at you to give feedback that you're nearing the limit. Apparently it also gives more resistance at this point (for deaf people).

Rather than fat or light people though it's better to look at it as a centre of gravity thing. The Segway doesn't know or care if you're a fat naked guy or a skinny clothed guy with a heavy backpack - you're the same weirdo to the Segway. It tries to maintain the balance upon that as much as it can. I forget the exact limit off the top of my head - sorry. It's on the Segway HT site.

Generic segway link 1, kickass segway link 2 (that's the one you want to read)

You are very correct, it's silly to have such DB platform-specific syntax in the language. In addition to PEAR which others have mentioned there is also John Lim's ADODB, a DB abstraction layer for PHP. It seems pretty robust, check it out.

Educate yourself:

Scheme: Tachy
A bunch of other non-algol languages: Project 7

And the URL was broken. Here is the right one:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100012/stories/2002/04/1 1/applescriptForGoogleApi.html

http://www.google.com/xml?q=slashdot

You'll (probably) get an error page.

I read about this on Scripting News in February:

Dave Winer made an inquiry to Google about accessing this XML API.

Their initial response was not very helpful, asking for the link to be removed, and saying that the link is "obviously reserved for Google partners." Eventually, Google let Dave access the API. Now, he sounds like he's under NDA about this.

They could actually charge for a devkit or usage to break even on the project. Even if it did costsome money, I could see it being well worth the price, if it works well.

I just wonder how it will tie into my app. Will it open my browser? Will the Google Bar plugin be the foundation?

The post describes a SOAP web service which in most cases is an RPC call in your application of choice. However unlike RPC in days of yore using SOAP to do RPC in applications is relatively easy. If you want to learn more about SOAP I suggest reading A GEntle Introduction To SOAP by Sam Ruby for an overview of the protocol and A Busy Developer's Guide to WSDL 1.1 to see how one could go from defining a WSDL file (as the Google sys admin is trying to do) to actually accessing the web service remotely from a Java application.

There is also a grab bag of resources on XML webservices at the .NET Framework community website.

To answer your question, if the Google API is available as a web service then it can be intergrated into any application at all from command line to dynamic web page to GUI application as long as there is network availability on the host machine.

They could actually charge for a devkit or usage to break even on the project. Even if it did costsome money, I could see it being well worth the price, if it works well.

I just wonder how it will tie into my app. Will it open my browser? Will the Google Bar plugin be the foundation?

The post describes a SOAP web service which in most cases is an RPC call in your application of choice. However unlike RPC in days of yore using SOAP to do RPC in applications is relatively easy. If you want to learn more about SOAP I suggest reading A GEntle Introduction To SOAP by Sam Ruby for an overview of the protocol and A Busy Developer's Guide to WSDL 1.1 to see how one could go from defining a WSDL file (as the Google sys admin is trying to do) to actually accessing the web service remotely from a Java application.

There is also a grab bag of resources on XML webservices at the .NET Framework community website.

To answer your question, if the Google API is available as a web service then it can be intergrated into any application at all from command line to dynamic web page to GUI application as long as there is network availability on the host machine.

intro, guide, and more.

intro, guide, and more.

You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.

Tides != waves ... and pumping water != generating electricity. Nonetheless, it's worth mentioning that Santa Cruz had a wave machine before 1910. See
this weblog entry and the Sandy Lydon column that it points to.

...they need protection from the mafia. The industry keeps a stable of "artists" (I HATE the "a" word) in servitude (ultimately at the "artist's" expense) in hopes that they can milk a few for high margins. I would rather have a reasonable chance of earning a living at music than a long-shot a superstardom. Access to channels is what makes this possible. Defense of channels is the Industry's mission in life.

The author is basing this on outdated information. Google knows to crawl sites that change frequently more often than those that don't. Here is a concrete example:

I posted Two Kinds of Order by John Marks on March 11th, and mentioned this to some colleagues who might be interested. I linked to it from a Weblog or two,and Doc Searls did too.
Today it is number 1 on a search for 'two kinds of order' out of over 2 million, and a search for John Marks brings the page up in 5th position, despite there being lots of other John Marks's on the net.

Thats what I call fast (and relevant)

/. has to do something, they are way too slow posting things.
This story was in my site Three days ago...

If someone runs an open relay, they deserve to be blacklisted. Those sites who enjoy receiving spam can choose not to use blacklist information. Those who do not like spam can use blacklists.

However, those who repent and fix their open relays should be immediately removed from any open relay blacklist they might be listed with. It's totally irresponsible to run a blacklist without provisions for keeping them up to date in near-realtime.

An example of a great service was ORBS (the Open Relay Blackhole Service), may it rest in peace. It was largely automated, and would add and remove sites simply based on observations made by their relay-checking robot. There were some manual entries (for sites who refused to be probed), and that was cause for a bit of controversy. But by and large it was quite excellent. I can see absolutely no reason whatsoever for anyone to complain about the creation and use of such blacklists, unless they are a spammer. I have never heard a valid reason why an open relay should be considered okay (I do *not* agree with John Gilmore, just about the only slightly credible dissenter I've heard on this topic. He's just too lazy to use one of many available alternatives to what he's trying to accomplish. See this to see what I'm talking about.)

Too bad most of the great blacklist services seem to be going away or becoming (highly overpriced) commercial endeavors.

What you're looking for is ADOdb for PHP. I've been using it for about a year. It is an essential tool for PHP, much like DBI/DBD is for Perl.

I am wondering if such a comparison can bring a real relevance for the PHP development community evolution to an improved level. I don't think that small nifty features will make PHP development a better choice for the real web developers, that need productivity and a framework for application development.

During the last 3 years, all the editors have included nice and standard functionalities like: multi project support, code highlighting, autocompletion(even for your own functions), integrated debugger, integrated help, etc.

But when it comes to programming dynamic websites, the tasks to do are pretty repetitive and boring and real programming is usually not needed. Usually you connect to a database, get some fields from a query and put them in a HTML table (repeating the procedure for each row or not). Usually you need to see the HTML output and to write some HTML code (preferable in a WYSIWYG editor).

None of the current IDEs allow you to do this (except for Macromedia UD, which does not support PHP natively, but using our GPL extension PHAkt). Programming web application using one of them is a very complicated solution to the problem. You have to reinvent the wheel a zillion times in creating a lot of "form validation", "user authentication", "repeated regions" etc. code blocks, that are very particular, hard to use by others and unmaintanable.

<paradigm shift>What we need is a powerful framework for developing PHP applications, something like .NET, a platform that will allow us to compete with the ubiquitous .NET and J2EE.</paradigm shift> (I love using this paradigm shift thing:). It has to support SOAP and the rest of the current communication protocols (UDDI, ebXML, etc) and has to provide some "already written and tested code blocks" for reuse.

That's why we are developing and have released Krysalis - as an Open Source project. Krysalis aims to become what Cocoon is for Java. (if you don't know Cocoon, check http://xml.apache.org). A platform for writing web applications with a complete separation between the data, the application logic and the presentation layer. Of course, to do this, the most hyped and elegant way is by using XML and XSLT. The process is very simple, we use a sitemap that describes the possible requests to the server, some pipelines where we describes the succession of data gathering and transformations and then, for each request to the server (the server is Apache with PHP support) we execute the corresponding pipeline. That is, read the PXP file ( an XML that contains the application logic), execute it and retrieve the complete XML tree, then read the XLST files associated with the request and process the original XML tree with them. After all the XSLT processing is done, we print the output to the browser.(the output can be XHML or PDF or anything else if you provide a Serializer that will do the conversion from the last XML tree to the needed format).

This way, might a site became a little harder to write, but maintaining it will be a piece of cake. The current alternation between application logic and HTML tags (presentation) is a real pain in the ass when you need multiple presentations (like HTML / PDF, like English version and German version, etc). Each time you make a modification in the application logic, you have to search all the places where that application logic block is used and correct them, too. Etc.

How can Krysalis help me create my sites faster? Using taglibs. Taglibs are already written code sections that are included and parametrized in your files and which are converted to real PHP code at the execution time. We have already implemented taglibs for the SQL connection, form variables, authentication.

Technically, Krysalis is also based on ADODB (php.weblogs.com/ADODB), and the PHP problems with way too many and different database connectivity APIs is solved.

To get back to the current topic, what Krysalis need right now is an IDE. We are working on one (Krysal IDE), an editor that will allow you to develop Dynamic Websites with the same ease as you develop Web Services. To reach both the Windows and Linux community, we'll implement it Java (we know. Maybe it will be slower, but at the current hardware prices I don't think this makes a real difference). The rendering engine will be Mozilla (probably) as in the next 3 month it will be mature enough (we think). More, the Lite version will be also open source, so everyone will be able to use and improve it.

Take a look at a current pre-alpha screenshot of Krysal IDE at http://www.interakt.ro/products/Krysalis/. The XML/XSLT part is not yet implemented, we have done only the dynamic XML generation and preview with a preliminary support for taglibs.

That's what we think on PHP development. I would like to know how the slashdotters view this approach.

Alexandru COSTIN
Product Manager
http://www.interakt.ro/ :: Engineering Your Desires
+401 411 2610

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Common Lisp HyperSpec
• Common Lisp the Language, 2. ed
• Common Lisp - A gentle Introduction to symbolic computation
• The Scheme Programming language, 2. ed
• Reflections on trusting trust
• Lisp: Good News, Bad News. How to Win Big
• John McCarthy's homepage
• Dennis Ritchie's homepage
• Various classic papers it's a shame ACM never bothered to continue adding to
• Another list of classic papers (this time related mostly to programming language design)
• GTK-Gnome Application Development (not a classic, though, as the field is too young)
• KDE 2.0 Development (not a classic though, as the field is too young)
• Eric Weissteins Mathworld
• Compilers and compiler generators - an introduction with C++ (although I'm not too sure if it deserves being called a classic...)
• Parsing techniques - A practical guide
• Art of assembly language programming (never was a dead tree, but good anyway)
• Paul Carters 386 assembly book (same comment as above)
• An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation (see comment above)
• How to design programs - An introduction to programming and computing (not a classic, yet!)
• The Gutenberg archives contains much non-copyrighted classic fiction in ASCII format
• Sacred texts has copies of or links to many religious text for various major (or minor) religions

Bored of goatse? Try this instead Worthy of a troll mod for sure!

> I would certainly hope that a cookie wouldn't
> contain that information. Usually a cookie just
> has an identifying number, and all information
> is stored server side. I can't imagine anyone
> doing otherwise

You don't have to imagine in it. You can just go here . Or here . Or here, or here, or here, or here...

Chris Mattern

This dude (maybe you've heard of him) has modded his dell laptop with a k-rad sticker

He also modded his car, perhaps you've seen it.

Nice. There's also the rather similar Disturbing Search Requests. There are some odd people out there.

I hope you like the commentary. I've really bashed them on the head with a club :))

I'll plug my article here. It's titled "The myth of convergence" and is about the uselessness of convergence devices, such as this watch. As it happens, I've used the same product as an example of products that are doomed.

You can read it on my weblog at: http://madman.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$104

convergence is stupid. i am reminded of a good article i recently read about why this sort of thing (it actually used a digital camera wristwatch as a hypothetical example!) is stupid:

the myth of convergence

i want a good digital camera, and a good watch, so that if i want a better of each, i just get a new or somehow improved one; if they're all binded together, i get a mediocre version of whatever's in there and when i want a new camera i gotta throw away my watch.

fuhget about it.

The The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (found on the great Lambda the Ultimate blog on functional programming) features a dozen funny Haskell functions to implement factorial. The most elegant implemenation, though, is by the "Tenured Professor":

fac n = product [1..n]

Boston Public Library Departments Reference Desks, our Regional and
Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse, so called, have forwarded
to City Hall some reference requests for public records
managed by our public library.

It's an attempt to be a kind of deterrent for public library users and
contrary to the usual expected discretion for BPL Departmental Reference Desk services.

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• Disturbing search requests
• Fireball voyeur queries - see what other people ask for in German search engine fireball.de; go ahead if you don't understand German, some queries don't need translation ;-)

You probably should check out this site: Disturbing Search Requests

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That doesn't mean they're correct in believing that such ads work.

Doc Searls writes occasionally about what would happen if your TV's mute button sent a message upstream, showing advertisers how few people were actually watching their ads. Perhaps no ad medium works (in general), but because the web is measurable, it's failure to work is proven. For instance, your "push" reference to magazines also makes traditional advertisers and media happy, because they all agree to talk about how many of those decisionmakers are reached with a magazine, ignoring the issues of (a) whether a given "target" opened the magazine, and (b) opened the particular page where that ad was, and (c) actually saw the ad.

Doc Searls writes:

"Here's something else to consider: Microsoft has so rarely had worthy competition from other Big Boys that the total rounds down to zero. They had it from Novell when Craig was running strategy there (one Microsoft guy told me "he kicked our ass"), but that was back in the 80's. They had it for a few minutes from Netscape when that company creatively ubiquitized LDAP. But they never had it from Apple (which for the Jobs interregnum was more of a bad partner than a good competitor). For brief and shining quarters they had it from Borland, Lotus and WordPerfect; but all of those companies lacked the endless supply of adrenalin a company needs to stay in the game. I'm not saying those weren't valuable companies (some still are); just that they were never in the same league. Frankly, nobody is. And that isn't Microsoft's fault, any more than it was Michael Jordan's fault that nobody could take him one-on-one or Mozart's fault that he was surrounded by Salieris. As competitive companies, Microsoft is in a league of its own. If you're like the other 99% of PC users out there, the proof is right there in your pixels."

It's kinda what The Emperor calls a Fully Operational Battle Station

...man, Doc has a way with words.

Doc Searls writes:

"Here's something else to consider: Microsoft has so rarely had worthy competition from other Big Boys that the total rounds down to zero. They had it from Novell when Craig was running strategy there (one Microsoft guy told me "he kicked our ass"), but that was back in the 80's. They had it for a few minutes from Netscape when that company creatively ubiquitized LDAP. But they never had it from Apple (which for the Jobs interregnum was more of a bad partner than a good competitor). For brief and shining quarters they had it from Borland, Lotus and WordPerfect; but all of those companies lacked the endless supply of adrenalin a company needs to stay in the game. I'm not saying those weren't valuable companies (some still are); just that they were never in the same league. Frankly, nobody is. And that isn't Microsoft's fault, any more than it was Michael Jordan's fault that nobody could take him one-on-one or Mozart's fault that he was surrounded by Salieris. As competitive companies, Microsoft is in a league of its own. If you're like the other 99% of PC users out there, the proof is right there in your pixels."

It's kinda what The Emperor calls a Fully Operational Battle Station

...man, Doc has a way with words.

Our Regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
City of Boston Public Library Departments Curators
have censored their very own curatorial reports.

BPL Departments curatorial reports are a source of
descriptive bibliography about the scope of our public
library collections within the overall collections.

Library President Bernie Margolis needs to remove the
too many barriers to access legitimately public BPL
departmental curatorial reports.

Bernie flouts state and local FOI freedom of
information and our cities' public libraries
intellectual freedom principles by allowing BPL
curators to censor at public reference desks.

Social Sciences department curator
Mary Francis O'Brien, Humanities Department curator
Bill Grealish and Government Documents Department
curator Gail Fithian have censored their very own City
of Boston Public Library Departments curatorial
reports.

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Our Regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
City of Boston Public Library Departments Curators
have censored their very own curatorial reports.

BPL Departments curatorial reports are a source of
descriptive bibliography about the scope of our public
library collections within the overall collections.

Library President Bernie Margolis needs to remove the
too many barriers to access legitimately public BPL
departmental curatorial reports.

Bernie flouts state and local FOI freedom of
information and our cities' public libraries
intellectual freedom principles by allowing BPL
curators to censor at public reference desks.

Social Sciences department curator
Mary Francis O'Brien, Humanities Department curator
Bill Grealish and Government Documents Department
curator Gail Fithian have censored their very own City
of Boston Public Library Departments curatorial
reports.

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Open Source Advocate Has Yet To Rebut Craig Mundie

Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy: helping out at installfests, answering questions on the Central Kansas Free Unix User's Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to write a long-winded essay rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie's recent remarks about open source?

Our crack interviewing team cornerned Parns in his home, where he was conspicuously not combing through the text of Mundie's remarks, just as he had not been in attendance at NYU's Stern School of Business on May 3 to hear Mundie speak. What justified this weird behavior?

"I really think there are enough rebuttals already, " said Parns. "I mean, have you even read all those things? "

Eric S. Raymond, whose two preemptive rebuttals sparked the craze, was pessimistic about the chances for a Parns rebuttal in the future. "Obviously, we can't force him to write a rebuttal to Mundie's wrong-headed remarks about open source," said Raymond. "However, it's possible that my new paper, 'How I Rebutted Craig Mundie's Wrong-Headed Remarks About Open Source In Copious Detail--And How You Can Too' will give him some ideas. In fact, there's sort of a little form rebuttal in Appendix C which he can sign his name to and get it linked from Linux Today."

"As a full-time programmer, my day is pretty busy," said Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation, whose anti-Mundie remarks were picked up by Infoworld. "Yet even I managed to stop by Mundie's speech and make a few remarks to the press. I don't think this Parns is even trying. I mean, even Steve Ballmer published a 3000-word Mundie rebuttal. Sic transit gloria Mundie, I guess."

Even Parns' neighbors have begun to notice this gap in the open source ranks. "The way he helped me with my Red Hat install, I was sure he was some sort of hot-shot free software advocate," said Millie Leman, a local dominatrix and mother of two. "But I haven't heard one word from him about this Mundie thing. It makes a person wonder."

"Look, it's spring, my son's about to graduate from junior high, I'm trying to get KCron to 1.0," said Parns, shooing this reporter out his front door. "Just leave me alone."

Will Parns rebut? Already, rebuttals with his name on them have begun showing up, though he denies authorship. Watch for the rebuttal signed with Parns' Gnu Privacy Guard key, and keep reading Segfault.org for complete coverage of every Mundie rebuttal ever written.

Tomorrow: An in-depth look at the rebuttal that Mark Billings of London saved to ~mark/mundie.txt, but never showed to anybody.

(This 'story' was first shown at Segfault.org here, and was written by Leonard Richardson)

First, Is Google Up To the Task?, and secondly, What Harm Has Google Already Caused?".

Hopefully, the database wrappers won't be a problem; for instance, PHP has ADODB, which should let you keep your choice of databases fairly flexible, AFAICT...

Also, there are already a ton of webmail packages out there; I remember HOARD had something that looked promising for a while. I think a lot of the pieces are out there, so hopefully a project like this will be more about architecting a good solution, and the implementation will be more about putting it all together than making it from scratch.
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For some insight into how truly bad some people are at constructing a search request, check out Disturbing Search Requests. It's updated constantly and is a consistent source of wonder and amusement.

How could a corporately manufactured piece of shit like the Beatles be considered for anything other than the greatest marketing scheme pushed on pre-pubescent females.

Oh. Whoops.

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Agreed. I see a lot of disappointment among "internet fans" when this film does "okay" at the box office, a far cry away from the cultural phenom they predict. I expect "Spiderman" to do a lot better...
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One such project is ADODB.

MyNapster uses the Napster protocol but also allows you to search for pictures, videos, etc...
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I haven't had a lot of time to study the UDDI spec, but I have been pondering the topic of Open Services for quite some time and my feeling is they will. I like the term Open Services, as Tim O'Reilly calls them, over Web services because this concept is applicable beyond HTML and just the Web.

I think the biggest hurdle at the moment for this concept, is the perception that Microsoft invented this concept (therefore there must be something sinister and evil behind it!) and its tied to just their technology which is just plain off.

The idea of open services where around before SOAP. I haven't done an in-depth genealogy of the concept, but I can tell you Dave Winer at Userland has been evangelizing it for a couple of year now. There is also Allaire's WDDX and in a looser sense RSS and ICE.

Microsoft did initiate the SOAP spec, but have put they have opened it up and submitted to the W3C. They incorporated IBM's feedback which garnered IBM whole-hearted support. IBM released their Java implementation on AlphaWorks and then donated the code to Apache. Even Sun conceded it was a good idea and gave as much of an endorsement as they could stomach for something Microsoft had initiated.

I would even argue that IBM is excelling beyond Microsoft. Well... at least in the developer community. They've yet to release anything commercially or articulated a product strategy that utilizes it. (Typical them.) Microsoft does seem to be betting quite a bit on SOAP/Open Services and going from there.

What I love about this concept (and why I think it will succeed) is that its fairly easy and straight forward to work with. It also is a more concrete way to get all of these different platforms that are deployed to talk to each other. It will just makes developing easier, better and smarter.

The way I read it, UDDI is just a progression in making solutions built on this concept more robust.

For all of those interested in this topic, here are some good background links on the topic that aren't so Microsoft-rah-rah.

• The Network Really Is The Computer
• XML: A Disruptive Technology
• AGENCY.CO M's Flexitecture Methodology
• Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
• XMethods: Web Service Listing
• SOAP::Lite (A lightweight SOAP server written in Perl)
• xml-rpc.com
• soap.weblogs.com
• Apache SOAP

As more and more people get online, the political spectrum will begin to look just as centrist as most of America is.

The web's early adopters were affluent white males with mostly libertarian leanings, and they are over represented online.

The web will become just as centrist as the rest of America...
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