Interview: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web
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In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Tim Bray talks about why he is not convinced with the buzz surrounding Rich Internet Applications and shares his ideas on Cloud Computing. He also expresses his opinion regarding the debate REST vs. WS-* and the future directions web technologies will be taking.
Watch: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web (32 min.)
Tim Bray also addresses the way web technologies are affected by the current economic turmoil and gives his insight into which paradigms he sees going forward in these challenging times.
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marc _
the video stops after or during the answer to the second question.
Regards
Marc
Re: Video stops after the
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Diana Baciu
I just tested the video and everything seems to be working just fine.
Diana (InfoQ)
Re: great interview
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Jeff Niles
Take this quote from the interview: "Oh it was so great when the vendors all brought in the web interfaces because it forced them to get rid of all these weird cascading menus and options that nobody ever used, [...] I think a dollar with that kind of richness is worth a thousand dollars of things that wiggle when you put the mouse over them."
And how is the interview presented in this javascript-abusing, godawful website? I have to read through a key hole and click on worthless little widgets. This is extremely counter-productive and annoying.
You guys need to take a lesson from Tim and lay out your website in some reasonable way.
Re: great interview
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Benjamin Booth
... the interview is posted to one of the most unusable, poorly designed websites I have ever seen in my life. Do you guys have any idea what you are doing?
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And how is the interview presented in this javascript-abusing, godawful website? I have to read through a key hole and click on worthless little widgets. This is extremely counter-productive and annoying.
You guys need to take a lesson from Tim and lay out your website in some reasonable way.
I cannot disagree more, Jeff. Oh, and by the way, the Tim's interview was fantastic.
I've been using InfoQ for several years and love the cleanliness and usability of the site. In fact, I'd venture to say that it's a model for information-rich, mixed media presentation and interaction. Their combination of video and textual presentation of interviews is fantastic. Click on text you want to hear again and the video resets to that point.
Jeff, I challenge you to post a single link to a website you had any part in developing that rivals InfoQ.
Re: great interview
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Ivan L
Re: great interview
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Twice Tshwenyane
... the interview is posted to one of the most unusable, poorly designed websites I have ever seen in my life. Do you guys have any idea what you are doing?
...
And how is the interview presented in this javascript-abusing, godawful website? I have to read through a key hole and click on worthless little widgets. This is extremely counter-productive and annoying.
You guys need to take a lesson from Tim and lay out your website in some reasonable way.
I cannot disagree more, Jeff. Oh, and by the way, the Tim's interview was fantastic.
I've been using InfoQ for several years and love the cleanliness and usability of the site. In fact, I'd venture to say that it's a model for information-rich, mixed media presentation and interaction. Their combination of video and textual presentation of interviews is fantastic. Click on text you want to hear again and the video resets to that point.
Jeff, I challenge you to post a single link to a website you had any part in developing that rivals InfoQ.
+1
Re: great interview
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Stefan Tilkov
I agree that infoqs video content is reasonably well-presented. It really begs for some transcripts though.
But … there is a transcript?!
And this is the problem with "Enterprise" developers
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Kevin Brown
And don't give me the "Show me your great website then" crap. Look at many other professional sites (Google search, Cisco's page, Lockheed, or about 90% of other big businesses), you'll notice they are clean and simple with actual room for whitespace, and clearly defined navigation areas, with most of the area devoted to content. There are obvious offenders though like Yahoo, and to a lesser extent Amazon.
Also anyone who thinks it's a great idea to put the actual content users are trying to read in little 2 inch boxes is deluding themselves. Although I doubt sane comments will be worthwhile to anyone defending the usability of this site, since they all seem to have classical confirmation bias working against reality.
Re: great interview
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Kevin Brown
I agree that infoqs video content is reasonably well-presented. It really begs for some transcripts though.
But … there is a transcript?!
Ha ha, incredibly clean and usable site. Except that not even people who prefer a 'rich' layout can find anything on it :-D
Re: great interview
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Ivan L
The counter arguement...
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Jon Rose
What's your problem?
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Hermann Schmidt
Apparently, you actually seem to enjoy posting. How on earth did you figure this one out... :-D
Re: The counter arguement...
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Jean-Jacques Dubray
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Nolan Evans
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