The Future of Web Services
FOWA Miami : February 29

desktop app.
Pownce
website.
mobile site.

What is Pownce
Pownce?
social network?
blog?
micro-blog? file sharing?
forums?
instant messenger?
event calendar?
email?

No! Yes! Sort of...
“ social messaging ”

desktop app.
Pownce
website.
mobile site.

Pownce
firefox extension.
facebook app.
drupal module. greasemonkey script.
wordpress plugin.
igoogle gadget. jabber client.
iphone app. social feed.
ie plugin.

“ social messaging service ”

these are just views!
service

What is my web app?
code. technology. ip. infrastructure. storage.
features. rules. limitations.
website. html. feeds. desktop. mobile. sms.

game. interface.
features. rules. limitations.
These things define an application.
This is all you own.

data + features. rules. limitations. + api/view
-> service

APIs
consume. produce.

APIs
consume. produce.
consume
I drink your milkshake.
milkshake

APIs
consume. produce.
consume
I drink your milkshake.
milkshake

APIs
consume. produce
produce.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

APIs
consume. produce
produce.
atom feeds.
xml & json rest api.
xfn.
microformats.
ical.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

APIs
consume. produce
produce.
firefox extension.
facebook app.
drupal module. greasemonkey script.
wordpress plugin.
igoogle gadget. jabber client.
iphone app. social feed.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

APIs
xml. atom.
rss.
json.
rest.
foaf.
xfn.
microformats. soap. ical.
xmpp.

The Future

The Future
code. technology. ip.
*simple apps.*

The Future
infrastructure. storage.
* hosted environments. cloud computing.*

The Future
*moving away from webpages.*
website. html. feeds. desktop. mobile. sms.

The Past
of pownce.
poor api
biggest mistake.
mistake
sorry.

The Now
of pownce.
more data.
pownce api v2.0. note posting.
file transfer.
oauth.
app showcase.
(pownce.com/tools)

The Future
of your app.
interop. apis.
do it.
do it now.

... and version your api.
(biggest non-mistake)

thanks. questions?
photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjoro/98074988/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cloud_nine/1258407653/
http://flickr.com/photos/pbo31/78186236/