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Newsletter Archive: 2007
From The SOA Consortium - CIO SOA Concerns
Next up was a panel of experts - Sandy Carter of IBM, Judith Hurwitz of Hurwitz & Associates, Richard Soley of OMG - moderated by Brenda Michelson. This will apparently be available as a podcast some time soon. Brenda asked each person to identify the areas of most concern to CIOs.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/1213.html
12.13.07
WebGeo's Big Score In Amazon's Web Services Challenge
Kudos to the crew at WeoGeo for scoring a big win as a finalist in the Amazon AWS Start-Up Challenge. WeoGeo creates a one-stop marketplace for mapping using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/1129.html
11.29.07
Keep Web Services Simple
The easy way for .NET developers to create an API over HTTP is to use SOAP web services. It's natively supported by .NET and has rich support for more complex data types such as the DataSet.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/1108.html
11.08.07
Social Networking Browser Flock Gets Facelift
If you're using social networking/web 2.0 technologies to generate traffic and you aren't using the Flock web browser in your efforts, you're missing out in a big way.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/1015.html
10.15.07
Track Your Friends Web Activities with Friendfeed
Friendfeed is a cool new service by ex-Gmail and “don’t be evil” inventor Paul Buchheit. Friendfeed (which partly looks Google-like, too) tries to solve the problem of keeping track of your friends activities on the multitude of social networks, blogging tools, photo upload sites and so on...

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/1005.html
10.05.07
From SOAP To REST Web Services
I received a question in my email from reader, Rob Rawlins: A client of mine wants me to change the SOAP web service I publish into a REST service, and I dont even know where to begin.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0913.html
09.13.07
Google Services Give You More Storage, If You Pay For It
Google has finally unveiled a system under which you can pay them for more storage in Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and eventually, a bunch of other Google services.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0814.html
08.14.07
SaaS Vs. OSS? Users Choose SaaS
Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post on why the GPLv3 took a pragmatic approach when it came to the "SaaS loophole" (i.e. SaaS apps aren't redistributed; no redistribution means SaaS vendors can use GPLv2 code with modifications and keep the modifications to themselves).

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0727.html
07.27.07
FreshBooks Opens API, Lets In Some Fresh Air
The Enterprise Web 2.0 revolution has been a godsend to small and midsized companies. Inexpensive, web-based tools and services mean the little guys now have access to professional office tools that rival those used by the Fortune 500-at a fraction of the cost.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0710.html
07.10.07
Speed Up Web Services With The SoapDocumentMethod Attribute
I've done a lot of web services during the last couple of years and I simply love Service Oriented Architecture using SOAP.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0628.html
06.28.07
EBay DevCon: PayPal Goes Mobile
After a limpid reception in the US of PayPal's "Text2Buy" and "Text2Give" features, eBay has launched PayPal Mobile Checkout, a platform more closely mirroring the Web version.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0614.html
06.14.07
Optimize HTTP Requests & Web Service Calls
ASP.NET has an outgoing connection limit which is set to 2 connections by default. It means that the ASP.NET process does not create more than 2 concurrent connections simultaneously, but instead queues them up.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0607.html
06.07.07
Web Services - The Technology and its Security Concerns
The Web Service architecture comprises different technologies which enable a client to obtain data from a server, using the SOAP protocol.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0525.html
05.25.07
What REST Vs. WS Says About OSS Vs. Traditional Software
During the Redmonk unconference at CommunityOne, there was a discussion about whether REST was going to kill Web services (WS*).

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0510.html
05.10.07
Consuming A WebService With Flash Media Server 2
Here's a very simple example on how to invoke and consume a WSDL webservice using serverside Actionscript. You will need Flash Media Server 2 for this, it will not work in Flash Communication Server.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0426.html
04.26.07
Bad or Good? - Wrong Question
Aaron Swartz is an interesting guy. One of the co-founders of Reddit, the Digg-like recommendation engine that was recently bought by the Conde Nast magazine-publishing empire, his blog often has long and thoughtful posts with a refreshingly different perspective.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0412.html
04.12.07
Yahoo Mail Develops An Open API
Web developers will have the ability to leverage the 250 million users of Yahoo Mail as they create innovative and interesting applications based on the product; Yahoo Mail vice president John Kremer can't wait to see what they do.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0330.html
03.30.07
WDSL & Webresource.axd
Various WDSL (Web Service Description Language) entities exist in a web server. The file is meant to describe what services are available and what the expected inputs are for those services.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0316.html
03.16.07
Capabilities Of Sybase SqlAnywhere With .NET Integration
.NET developers can add the powerful capabilities of SQL Anywhere to their applications by using .NET programming interfaces and web services.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0301.html
03.01.07
ShoZu Adds Geotagging for Flickr, YouTube...
Oh man... while away I almost missed out in this announcement. It involves some of my favorite web services and one of the coolest, free mobile apps around.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0215.html
02.15.07
Customer-Lead, Trust-based Value Generation Services
This article explains how an enterprise can leverage increased value generation, thereby aiding competitive advantage, by adoption of the `Enterprise Value Generation Service Orientated Architecture Platform' (SOAP).

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0202.html
02.02.07
Web Services, Contracts And Copyright
What's the Deal With Contracts, Copyright and Web Related Services? If you're the client, make sure you include the following steps when hiring a service provider to ensure you don't get involved in a mess like a copyright or legal battle, no matter how much you trust them.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0118.html
01.18.07
Should Google Offer Its Own Services As A Tip?
I have been watching the latest spat against Google for offering "tips" on services and products that they offer, when some web searches are input into Google.

http://www.webservicespro.com/2007/0104.html
01.04.07
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