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Radio and P2P – not

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Okay, I’ll be the first to admit I’m a mood today, but there’s few things that tick me off more than this application of “P2P” to any old technology that comes along. And then this proud standing back as if all is explained. Give me a break. John throws this simple […]

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Radio and P2P

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. John did respond, in his comments, to my query ,in his comments, about Radio and P2P: I need a real P2P system to pull this off. Something that can go through firewalls and NATs. Unfortunately, most P2P systems are run by people that are only interested in Napster-style file transfer (essentially […]

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De-centralization

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Julian talks about a rant at the de-centralization mailing list at Yahoo. What he says is right on — specifically: There’s another couple of truisms here that “standards are useless without implementations” and so “There are only de-facto standards”. Everything else is just academic (mutual) mind games. If a standard isn’t implemented […]

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UDDI Questions

Andy sent some questions on UDDI that I’m going to attempt to answer. If you agree, disagree, or have additions, please drop a comment. Questions: How do you compare UDDI to other methods of discovering networked resources (may or may not be web services) What’s the difference a global UDDI registry and… – google: controlled by […]

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Are Web Services ready for the Web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The headline at news.com reads “Are Web Services Ready for the Web?” This really annoyed me. Last time I heard, there was a web before Microsoft. And there will be a Web in spite of Microsoft. So the company outreached itself with .Net My Services. Well, that’s not surprising considering how little […]