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From time to time, I (Cal Henderson) talk at conferences and such about web things. Here's a list of talks i've given and are planning to give.

The idea is for Sun to provide a very rich area for remote workers to come together and collaborate. Their early vision is very much a virtual version of their physical workspace world. The question that occurred to me is, do we need to pursue this path of virtual workspaces? Let's start with an assumption. The paradigm of bringing workers to a physical office is beginning to break down and it's only going to get worse. A few driving factors:

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Anyway here is (in no particular order) a list of the web 2.0 lists and other helpful product data that I've found on the Web.

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At the core of the Amazon strategy are the Web Services. The Amazon team takes the concepts of search, storage, lookup and management the data and turns them into pay-per-fetch and pay-per-space web services. This is a brilliant strategy and Amazon is certainly a visionary company. But what impresses me the most as an engineer is their ability to take very complex problems, solve them and then shrink wrap their solutions with a simple and elegant API. Eat your own dog food Perhaps the most admirable thing about the Amazon efforts is that they are productizing their own infrastructure. It may not be widely known, but Amazon.com itself runs on all these services. The blocks that comprise the biggest store on Earth are servicing each other! For example, the site relies on eCommerce service and the Simple Storage Service. The lack of the real customer feedback is a notorious problem in software engineering. The gap between the what software engineer thinks is useful and what the real customers want is a lot of times just hard to bridge. And how do you solve this problem for something like Amazon Web Services? Amazon's answer - turn ½ of the company to be the customers of the other half. This 'eat your own dog motto' forces the Web Services strategy on the success path. Failure is just simply not an option, since it is going to undermine the operations of the main business.

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The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need By Yoav Ezer on May 10, 2007 at 5:54 am · Filed under Uncategorized Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about.

The coming Web Service Tsunami Any application can be rewritten as a web based service. Salesforce.com is an excellent example of taking an existing client server application and rewriting it as a web based service. Hotmail is a web based email service. IBM is pushing hard with its "On Demand" software as a service program. Consumer focused web based services are often cited as examples, and there are lots of them. But enterprise applications are where the big money is and entrepreneurs know this. In the web service model a developer can code a feature or bug fix in the morning, test it in the afternoon, and have it deployed to millions of users by the end of the day. Innovation is instant, and continuous. Contrast this to the traditional software development method that takes years to develop, test, and ship. Then large corporations will only update their application infrastructure once a year. So it can take years to get a feature to the ultimate end user. Today Google, MSN, Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, Salesforce.com, and hundreds of start-ups are delivering applications as web services. For the purposes of this discussion Web Service will mean any software functionality that does not require a client download.

A good way to generate REST WS with ezpublish.

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Dapper: The Data Mapper

Good document describing new features and backwards compatibility