"The conversation continues..." is another mailing list I'm on (is it still called a mailing list if it's only one way?) This one is put out by Kevin Werbach and Esther Dyson, publishers of the influential Release 1.0: Esther Dyson's Monthly Report. Not nearly as entertaining as EGR, but it is pretty good coverage of the tech world. I don't learn too much new, but they have a knack for summing up the current thinking in an easy to swallow form. The last one featured a piece titled "The New WWW" where Kevin Werbach argues that Weblogs, Web Services, and WiFi are the new WWW.
"The old grassroots energy is coming back. Web services, Weblogs and WiFi are the new WWW."
I've been trying to get something together about web services. This is an important emerging area. And it does seem true that "the old grassroots energy" is coming back. We'll see.

Compare Kevin's thought to megnut's:
All this talk about APIs and web services warms my heart. We've passed the nadir of the dot-com hype and we're coming back to the Web in interesting and important ways -- opening up sites through APIs and services and working together to build better and more powerful applications. People are getting excited again about the potential of the Web and it's really great to see.

She points to a recent Kottke post where he sees the same thing: "But I admit that Web services makes me feel just a little bit tingly."

What's all the fuss about? More soon.

(You could subscribe to 'The conversation continues..." here.)
- jim 5-02-2002 8:36 pm




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