Azubuko Obele: Because everybody ends up managing their own messaging solution. Now every application isn’t complete until it can send/receive IMs.
25 years ago, pretty much everybody was talking about a new thing (or at least, it was new to them). It went by a name...
Azubuko Obele: Because everybody ends up managing their own messaging solution. Now every application isn’t complete until it can send/receive IMs.
25 years ago, pretty much everybody was talking about a new thing (or at least, it was new to them). It went by a name... Local Area Networks... or LANs. There were so many to chose from: Banyan Vines, Token Ring, SMB, NetWare, AppleTalk...
But people don’t talk much about LAN’s any more, what a pity. But the joke is on them — it seems that pretty much any application you use these days is LAN enabled anyway. And you know what? I, too, am a LAN administrator. Couldn’t be easier. Walk into your local Best Buy, ask for thing called a router and plug it in. Administration can be done via a web browser - hey, that turns out to be a LAN enabled application too! Who’d a thunk it?
Ten years from now, we will be using SMS text messages to change the channel on the televison.
hopefully not SMS text messages, but XMPP
One part of the story I neglected to mention. Remember all of those incompatible protocols I mentioned above? You know what happened to them?
Well, somebody had a bright idea to define an inter-networking protocol (they called it “internet” for short) that could be used as a gateway between these local area networks. Eventually, people stopped using the often proprietary LAN protocols in favor of directly connecting into the internet protocol itself.
Ain’t it funny how that worked out?
Same way it worked out with the web.
(Did I read that in the REST book recently? Or was it somewhere else? That it was the URI by which the web eventually came to supplant all the protocols that it initially only interconnected.)
People in the UK on Sky+ are already changing their TV channel by SMS (well actually I don’t think they are, as they’re not wanting the feature, but still, it’s an option)
Can’t seem to find a decent webpage about it, but it’s part of:
I expect that we will be able to send messages to appliances... but we don’t seem to be getting better at standards.
Maybe we’ll pull in the TV’s RSS feed and sent it an AtomPub post to change the default channel.
It’s still essentially a client-server tranaction. I’ll give it a REST.
Are you serious? I highly doubt 10 years from now we’ll all be using a solution to channel changing that uses a far greater amount of power.
I remember getting an app for my ipaq years ago to change the channel and guess what I currently use... the good old remote. Some things are best left the way they are.