Saturday, October 20, 2007 |
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With the release to public beta of Popfly, Microsoft's mashup editor, I'll reiterate my theory that mashups are the UNIX shell of the Internet. The corollary is that we need a suite of command equivalents: | Command | Mashup Alternative | | cd, mkdir, rmdir | facilities for manipulating "current URI"; REST principles, etc. | | mailx | messaging transformations and transports: mail, IM, SMS, twitter, etc. | | man | ? | | jobs, ps, kill, sleep, etc. | facilities for multiple mashup control | | ls | spidering facilities / robust HTML parsing, etc. "Get-ChildItem" in all its polymorphic complexity. | | who | FOAF | | finger, chfn | blogging | | cat, sed, sort, grep, wc, tail, etc. | All sorts of facilities for transformation of source to sink | Right now, everyone's concentrating on what output the mashup editors can produce or what the component manipulation looks like. I think the winner of the mashup evolution will be the one that provides the most flexible suite of components. |
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