Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks.
This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings.
Here’s the key difference in what we had [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 14, 2008
As Microsoft is ramping up its cloud story it seems that Live Mesh is starting to be positioned as one of the key elements. For example, now the Mesh framework got renamed to just Live Framework - quite a promotion unless there’s something else added in there.
I am quite skeptical about the technology and here’s [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 7, 2008
Just a couple of years ago Microsoft was spending incredible amount of effort developing, standardizing and publicizing their WS-* web service stack. This was a huge effort, they teamed up with IBM and others and built and documented a pretty impressive set of protocols covering every possible communications need over http. Now it looks like [...]