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FDT is an Application for Efficient Data Transfers which is capable of reading and writing at disk speed over wide area networks (with standard TCP). - Jared Hanson

In part 2 we will now look at the configuration management domain. Even though it’s less trendy, it is just as useful, if not more, in understanding the practical value of REST for IT management. - Jared Hanson

The findings listed below should be relevant whether your protocol is trying to be truly RESTful, just HTTP-centric or even zen-SOAPy. Many of the issues that arise when creating a protocol that maps well to IT management use cases should transcend these variations and that’s what I try to cover. - Jared Hanson

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management protocols. - Jared Hanson

BWTP is a proposed IETF draft for an alternative transfer protocol to that proposed for HTML5 Websocket that has grown out of the IETF HYBI mailing list. The proposal is a work-in-progress and feedback and collaborators are welcome. - Jared Hanson

After (mostly unsuccessful) Googling for how to stream iTunes over SSH, I finally tracked down the difficult bits myself and put together a four-line script (five if you count “shebang”)... - Jared Hanson

...one of the key missing components, especially in Ruby, has been the historical lack of functioning libraries - xmpp4r claims to support [PubSub], but examples are lacking. Thankfully, after test driving the latest batch of gems, it looks like we're finally there. - Jared Hanson

...one of the key missing components, especially in Ruby, has been the historical lack of functioning libraries - xmpp4r claims to support [PubSub], but examples are lacking. Thankfully, after test driving the latest batch of gems, it looks like we're finally there. - Jared Hanson

WebSockets in HTML5 change all of that as they were designed from the ground up to be data agnostic (binary or text) with support for full-duplex communication. WebSockets are TCP for the web-browser. - Jared Hanson

WebSockets in HTML5 change all of that as they were designed from the ground up to be data agnostic (binary or text) with support for full-duplex communication. WebSockets are TCP for the web-browser. - Jared Hanson

Hundreds of South Dakota troops will spend the holidays overseas this year, and for the military families left behind it can be a tough time. But, for one of those families the holidays will be a little brighter thanks to a drawing, a donation, and an afternoon of quick work. - Jared Hanson

It's significant that this approach is, at its core, not Apple-proprietary but rather Web standards-based, and conceptually consistent with the epub eBook format standard. As such it may end up setting direction for the industry as a whole. It's clear that rich media and interactivity will, over time, be integral to eBooks and other digital publications. - Jared Hanson

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software. Although I talk about weblogging software, there's no reason this format can't apply to other forms of web client/system software that I wasn't considering, or may not even exist as of this writing. - Jared Hanson

Twitter's API has spawned over 50,000 applications that connect to it, taking the promise of fertile APIs we first saw with Flickr half a decade ago and bringing it to new heights. Now, the first meaningful efforts to support Twitter's API on other services mark the maturation of the API as a de facto industry standard and herald the end of its period of rapid fundamental iteration. - Jared Hanson

With Metalink, we make this process automatic. Mirror lists, P2P sources, checksums, digital signatures, and other metadata about a download are included in an XML file which download programs can read. - Jared Hanson

People ask me all the time about the traits I look for in entrepreneurs and action orientation is at the top of the list. - Jared Hanson

About 18 months ago, we wrote about an obscure search startup from Germany called FAROO. We believed that its radical alternative, using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, had a shot at being a real disruptive force. Today, it has made some progress, has raised some money and is getting out into the market. ... So, we decided to invite someone who understands P2P at a technical level to interview Wolf Garbe, FAROO's founder. - Jared Hanson

With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services. Our aim is to construct criteria and context for determining the value of user labor, which is currently a monetized asset for the service provider but not for the user herself. We believe that universal, transparent, and self-controlled user labor metrics will ultimately lead to more sustainable social web. - Jared Hanson

Crowning yourself the Chief of Answers sets your team up to be the Tribe of Doing Things. You become the bottleneck restricting productivity, because you have to be involved in every decision. - Jared Hanson

What could be more boring than an XML standard for accountants that has been around for a decade? On the other hand, what could be more exciting than something that might disrupt and recreate the deeply broken global financial system? I spent two days at the XBRL US National Conference in New York to find out the reality, which is somewhere in between. - Jared Hanson

As I've thought about this over the years I've concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that's poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that's the CCD. - Jared Hanson

Since last week’s Kynetx Impact Conference I have gained an entirely new vision for the open web. I now foresee a web which the user completely controls, lives in the browser, syncs with the cloud, and has no boundaries. ... What I see is an internet that, regardless of what website you visit, you will never have to enter your login credentials again. I see the end of the log in button. - Jared Hanson

By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P capabilities into both the new Flash Player and Air 2 beta that could be used to replicate BitTorrent functionality within Flash, build large-scale P2P groupware solutions that work right within the browser and stream video to millions of viewers without having to pay a fortune for bandwidth. - Jared Hanson

Today at Kynetx Impact Conference Kynetx is changing the future of Web Identity and privacy as we know it by taking the power away from the server and moving it over to users’ desktops, mobile phones, or other client-based technology. - Jared Hanson

For years, it has been very clear that with the proliferation of websites out there has to be some kind of integration point for each individual. An integration point where all that stuff out there that I use comes together and becomes personal to me. - Jared Hanson

so as i turned toward the gate I said - maybe you are all revolutionaries without any teeth. maybe the answer is to grow some teeth. i don't know what i meant exactly, but it was an attempt to shout across the chasm. - Jared Hanson

Increasingly though, I see signs that the essential freedoms of the web are being undermined by a cadre of companies through the introduction of new technologies and interfaces that, combined, may spell the death of the URL. - Jared Hanson

Persevere 1.0 is now available for download. Persevere is a JavaScript storage and application server that uses a standards-based interface of HTTP/REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, and REST Channels. Persevere is designed for rich client applications and can be used with any framework or client. - Jared Hanson

The long awaited 280Atlas keeps marching on to its full release. The milestone that the awesome 280North team have accomplished this weekend was paid beta. The tool is Mac only right now and the team interestingly created their own framework for taking a Web app and making it run on the desktop. - Jared Hanson

In the early part of this decade, after the first dotcom crash, a lot of us thought that we'd all have personal servers by now. ... And with broadband becoming more popular, and computers cheaper, and old laptops lying around doing nothing, maybe for some people now's the time to start looking at having your own server running in your own house. - Jared Hanson

I’m not presenting the below presentation as gospel, if I may be so bold as to quote myself, I am not looking for right, just for least wrong, as one of the premises I state in the presentation is that so much of this space will continue to change for a long time to come. - Jared Hanson

Hurl makes HTTP requests. Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others. Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs. - Jared Hanson