Article:		What Is Web 2.0
Subject:		As simple as possible and no simpler
Date:		2005-10-01 02:02:03
From:		jbond
One key factor in all this is APIs and Data formats that are as simple as possible and no simpler. That's:- - REST not XMLRPC, XMLRPC not SOAP, SOAP, not WS* - RSS, not custom XML schema, Simple XML schema not obfuscated RDF http://ww.voidstar.com

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• As simple as possible and no simpler
  2006-10-24 09:04:02  pinchy [View]
  
  
  why not hopital2.0

• As simple as possible and no simpler
  2005-10-01 10:10:14  Tim O'Reilly | [View]
  
  
  Julian -- I completely agree. I wrote "lightweight programming models" but I should have used your formulation. It's central to the success of the internet as a whole.
  
  I remember bringing Fred Baker, the chair of the IETF, to the second open source summit, and asking him what advice he could give to the Open source community, and it was essentially what you said above: standardize as little as possible, just enough to ensure interoperability.
  
  
• As simple as possible and no simpler
  2007-08-14 21:17:25  Backup-Bro [View]
  
  
  Web 2.0 is getting more and more popular.
  Say take a look at http://lavasoft.com
  and http://www.office-backup.com get the feeling?