June 16, 2004
Web Services for Content
Here's a good document that looks at web services from a content syndication and distribution perspective: Web Services for Content
To date, most of the traffic on the Internet has been human-to-human interaction (email) and huma-to-server interaction (web pages). In the future, it is expected that a significant portion of traffic will be machine-to-machine interaction -- where one program calls another over the Internet and gets back the results that it needs. The language of the request and the response is incresingly becoming XML.
Advantages of web services for documents include:
- Content sharing--Syndication
- Content databases
- Sharing of information between several organizations
- Content personalization
- Multi-channel publishing
- Immediate updates of information
- Content integration within an organization
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