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- George Pipkin speaks on the Simple Object Access Protocol, a way to perform remote method invocation using just HTTP and XML. |
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- WAP refers to a suite of specifications developed by the wireless industry for delivering web-based content to cell phones and personal digital devices. While WAP has been plagued by industry wrangling and criticism, if offers useful lessons that can inform larger web strategy and help map the future direction of the wireless web. |
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- Software such as Napster and Gnutella have made Peer-to-Peer networking a household word, but companies like Groove and Sun (JUXTA) want to make it a tool for collaboration, not just just a file-trading facilitator. |
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- The ATG for reprises several topics from techtalks of the last few months, all of which are experiencing intriguing new developments. |
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- uPortal is a development of the JA-SIG consortium and provides specifications and a reference implementation. Our local MyUVA portal effort may be ported to the uPortal infrastructure. Owen Gunden has been exploring this migration, including porting our authentication and data channels to uPortal 2.0 alpha code. |
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- Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium have slowly been building a series of standards (including RDF, RDF Schema, and XML RDF) that lay the foundation for a distributed metadata infrastructure called the "Semantic Web". Along with a number of other efforts, including those at DARPA (DAML+OIL) and the University of Maryland (SHOE), Tim Berners-Lee hopes that the W3C will enable an explosion in new applications and enhancements to existing applications, effectively spawning a second web revolution. |
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