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[2005-12-30] BBC Opens News Archive Online
For a brief time, the BBC will throw open the film vaults online and let UK-based users create mashups of the content.
[2005-12-27] Google Opening Feed Reader API
The next API Google opens to developers will be for its RSS feed reading service, Google Reader.
[2005-12-24] YouTube Back On MySpace
MySpace members who use the YouTube service should be able to place videos on their profiles again.
[2005-12-23] When Web Services Go Bad
Much has been made of the new wave of web services, where a hosted application fulfills the needs of numerous users. When it goes wrong, though, the efficiency of the distributed system plummets.
[2005-12-22] Yahoo Heard You About Audio Search
The search crew at Yahoo has managed to work an Audio tab onto Yahoo's front page, to allow users to begin their music or podcast search as soon as they hit the site.
[2005-12-19] Web 2.0 Online Woes Persist
Typepad seems to have overcome its recent 18-hour outage and RSS reader site Bloglines has a datacenter migration planned; but recent Yahoo acquisition of social bookmarking site del.icio.us now has the "Closed" sign posted.
[2005-12-15] Microsoft, Google, Sun Get RAD
Joint collaboration on a Reliable, Adaptive and Distributive Systems lab at UC-Berkeley has the three tech companies contributing $7.5 million toward the lab's mission of creating freely-available web services.
[2005-12-01] IBM, Oracle Standardizing Web Services
Sometimes a great joke never dies. Just substitute "Web" for "Unix" in the following canonical one-liner and you'll see what I mean: "The nice thing about Unix standards is that there are so many to choose from."
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