Now that the UDDI V2 specs have been published[1], and there are a number of implementations of clients and servers (both closed and open source)[2], I can see two or three projects that would be cool based on the technology.
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It would help all of us if someone produced a few example "Use Cases" of how UDDI would be used, once there are lots of web service implementations and the registry has some substantial numbers of registrations.
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It's taken a long time, but the B2B industry is finally realizing that it's the B of business trading that's important and that "netmarkets" are just one way of achieving that. Along the way we've discovered that the many to many hub, usually with dynamic pricing, only works in a few specialized areas. Those areas are exactly the situations predicted where the product is a commodity and/or price is relatively unknown. Some typical examples might be pork bellies or distressed/surplus stock. These are exactly the markets where trading floors or auctions existed in the real world. eBay has shown that this trade can be take on line successfully and it seems a reasonable bet that eBay will subsume most of the other online auctions. Incidentally, people often question whether eBay is B2B. While it's mainly C2C, I'd love to see some figures for the total B2B trade on eBay. I think it's substantial and probably dwarfs most other B2B projects.
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If we look back over the 5 years or so of B2B trading over the Internet, we can see a number of trends and drivers that have pushed this forwards. The early initiatives centred on three areas; Netmarkets with their attempts to bring large numbers of buyers and sellers to a single centralized hub; Big business procurement particularly aimed at reducing MRO costs; And online catalogues and ordering from the larger suppliers.
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In the last few months there has been a marked increase in the noise level around web services but also a lot of confusion about what they are and what it all means.
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There's a revolution going on beneath the surface of the internet. This revolution already has a name, "Internet 3.0" and protocols, SOAP and XML-RPC. It has the potential to radically alter the way we think about the Internet. Like ice bobbing to the top, the tip has just broken through the surface. In the last week, Microsoft has had a big conference on how XML and SOAP fits into .NET and how all their tools (from Word to Commerce Server) will have a SOAP interface[1]; eBay announced that they are exposing all their function through SOAP[2][3]; And MS announced that they were going to bolt eBay function into their small business portal bCentral. Meanwhile the promise of UDDI to provide a searchable index of all this function is just about to be realized. And if Ariba, MS and IBM don't do a good job, there are others waiting in the wings to do it for them.
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This is inevitably going to be a bit of a scattershot but I'll try and provide a reasoned argument. There's a strong need to apply ratings, and firefly/ringo techniques to almost everything. Here's some initial thoughts on an open rating system.
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I've exposed myself to a large amount of input in the last 6 months. As I've gone along it's come out again as deliberate provocation of the status quo. I'm not sure I believe that desktop P2P is a good way of doing business trade, but it was fun throwing the idea in the mix to see what came out. Quite early in my thinking I swapped it for Organization Server level P2P. Every org should have a server(s) that's outward facing that it can talk direct to any other org's server(s) and expose all the public function of the Org. But that's an aside.
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Lately, I've been researching RSS. This is possibly the simplest XML standard possible. It's purpose is to distribute metadata about news headlines on News websites. The main use is news syndication, but people are finding all sorts of other uses. It's been sufficiently successful that there are >3000 sites creating an RSS file, Yahoogroups generates it for all it's mailing lists. There's a NASDAQ stock feed. There are now numerous news aggregators competing with Moreover, iSyndicate, etc etc. http://blogspace.com/rss/ for background.
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With a UK Election just gone it is apparent that UK Politics is spiritually, morally and practically bankrupt. Be Revolting and say "I'm just not going to take it any more."
Here's a 19 point plan for Revolutionizing UK Politics loosely based on The Revolution from R.U.Sirius.
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Here's a 19 point plan for Revolutionizing UK Politics loosely based on The Revolution from R.U.Sirius.
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