Web services

Privnote

Emily Chang (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Web service that let's you send notes that will self-destruct after being read.

Web Services Best Practices

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

What are some good articles for best practices for designing and implementing Web services? A colleague recently asked me, "I'm actually looking for a Best Practices document regarding developing Web Services (not necessary in the context of SOA)." Here's a non-exhaustive and somewhat unscientific but hopefully helpful list: "Best practices for Web services" series: Part 1 through...

Microsoft to host 'Deskless Worker' entry-level Web services

BetaNews (Free subscription) | yesterday

When Microsoft announced in March it would be marketing its own hosting services for Exchange and SharePoint, some wondered how the company could successfully compete with itself? Today, it provided the answer.

News Tools: Silly Web Applications

NewAssignment.Net (Free subscription) | yesterday

Much like book covers, you cannot judge a Web service by its vowel-less, silly name. The truth is, the best web services — Flickr, Google, digg — often sound like nonsense, making many newsrooms disregard them. Yet, what they fail to realize is that these services are tools, despite whatever the tag line describes itself as. Here are a few web services that deserve a spot...

bit.ly = TinyURL + Google Cache + Web Stats + RSS Feeds

Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Bit.ly is the best web service for compressing long web addresses into short URLs that can be shared in email messages without truncation.

Visual Studio 2008 Hangs After Adding A Web Reference

MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sign Of The Times... A few weeks ago I came across a problem in Visual Studio 2008, whereby it seemed to hang every time I added a web reference to the CRM web service , and then tried using IntelliSense to discover the attributes of an entity . Looking at the processes in Windows Task Manager, showed that Visual Studio was consuming almost all the CPU cycles, with "devenv.exe" showing 99% CPU...

XINS 2.1

Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

XINS - Java Web Services framework that accepts REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC.

Web based home design site Floorplanner adds 3D objects

Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Web services , Beta , web 2.0 Whether you want to design a dream home or figure out how to cram a new couch into your living room, Floorplanner can help. The site, which we first covered last year , lets you design, share, and export floorplans. The site recently launched a new beta version with a bunch of updates, including support for 3D objects. In other words, your couch, bed,...

Microsoft sets pricing, fee sharing for services

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday pricing for its suite of online services targeted at corporate customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage other companies to sell the software company's products.

Demographics forging a new Net market: It’s not your kids’ Web

Rational rants (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

It’s easy and fashionable to talk about “digital natives” that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me, may hold the key to [...]

Referencing Multiple Web Services From An Application Client

Java Technology Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

This Tech Tip describes how to develop an application client that references multiple web services that implement any combination of web services programming models.

Web Services Resource Access Working Group

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

A Proposed W3C working group, because, according to the submitters , accessing data about a resource through Web services is an area of the Web services architecture that has yet to be fully realized. That is something that is very hard to take with a straight face; it very much depends on your definition of "Web", for example. I actually added WSRF support to Alpine ; it isn't that...

Following Family Footsteps Leads to Surging Web Service

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Last week, RentLinx also added REIArentals.com, a nationwide Web site featuring National Real Estate Investors Association members' rental properties. The site helps renters find housing and gives investors a place to market their properties online. It is the 58th Web site to join the RentLinx network. RentLinx also advertises listings on other free Web sites such as GoogleBase, ShowMeTheRent, HotPads,...

• RENTLINX: Following family footsteps leads to surging Web service - Detroit Free Press

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jul07 08

Robin Good (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

... people Kaltura: Create videos together with other people in real-time Openomy: Online file sharing service gives you 1GB to share your files ManyCam: Use your webcam with multiple source software applications at once ProjectForum ProjectForum is a wiki software that runs as a server application on a central server or your own computer, running any operating system. Once installed, it allows...

Mike Amundsen Posts Sample SQL Server Data Services Provisioning Application

OakLeaf Systems (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Mike’s New Provisioning Client Example Web App thread of July 4, 2008 in the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) - Getting Started forum includes a link to the SSDS Provisioning Client Web service that lets you manage authorities, containers, and entities. For those of you without an SSDS beta account, here’s a retouched screen capture of Firefox 3 showing the Manage Containers page listing...