Well its Christmas time and I can be forgiven for a terrible pun. 2005 has definitely been the break out year of web services, though to many it may seem as if AJAX and RSS were the big things of 2005. Well in many ways they were the heralds to a greater revolution taking place under our noses, namely the web services tsunami.
2005 saw sites such as Flickr and Delicious grow in popularity, not only for their utility but also because of the easy to use web services they both offered, their popularity was so much indeed they were both acquired.
AJAX not only brought a more dynamic look and feel to a web page, it offered for many a new way to get snippets web service data via the XMLHttpRequest Object
And RSS became the “web service” of choice for the internet
This year also saw the release of Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an innovative concept that takes the idea of social networking and brings it to problem solving. Mechanical Turk allows people with problems to find workers willing to help solve their problem on the internet. In many ways its a marketplace for the labour to solve problems
Finally I leave you with the thoughts of Richard MacManus and his view of Mechanical Turk from his top 10 web 2.0 moments of 2005 blog post.
9. The return of Amazon - Mechanical Turk and Alexa web services. Towards the end of the year, Amazon.com threw a couple of curve balls - showing they haven't lost their innovative touch
See you all in the New Year
Don
Very nice blog .. keep blogging
Posted by: mynewsbot | January 12, 2006 at 02:52 AM
Iam one not very happy amazon customer, who has been shopping with amazon quiet happly for some time, untill, despatch dates were altered, again, and again, and again. No one from amazon, thought it a good idea to e-mail me to let, me know, that yet again the dispatch date would come and go, with no delivery.
Is seems its o.k. for them to blame their suppliers, for the delivery dates, but not o.k. to send a simple e-mail to let me know just what is going on.
the goods were ordered in October, now in december, I'm still waiting!!!
Posted by: Janet Dering | December 10, 2006 at 06:42 AM
Hmmm, seems cool.
Joe joestain13@yahoo.com
Posted by: Joe | October 22, 2007 at 06:35 AM