(2010-11-17) Udell Recent Work And Patterns

Jon Udell notes: I’d like to thank Caleb Clark for recording and posting a video of the talk I gave last month at the Marlboro College Graduate School. I watched it the other night and I think it’s my best explanation of a cluster of things I’ve been thinking about and working toward for a long time. The list includes:

• the Local Web
• Library Lookup
• webscale identifiers
• ReST
• public data
• Loosely Coupled cloud services
• lightweight service composition
• structure and transformation of data
• the Elm City project
• the PubSub pattern
• feed syndication (RSS)
• personally authoritative data publishing
• social and decentralized information management

When I look at that list, and realize that I’m always trying to do (and describe) all of these things at the same time — because they’re all deeply intertwingled (Intertwingularity) — I can see why it’s been so hard to tell the story.

Jan24'2011 update: he now has a list of some (7) principles that people apply when they work well together online. It’s the same list that emerges when I talk about Computational Thinking, or Fourth R principles, or Think Like The Web.