Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is a Partner at The Accelerator Group. He writes extensively about the social and economic effects of the internet for the O'Reilly Network, Business 2.0, and FEED. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.Articles by this author:
Emerging Technology Briefs: WSDL A brief look at the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and its role as the de facto standard Web Services description format. [May. 1, 2002]Emerging Technology Briefs: SOAP A brief look at the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and its role as the de facto standard Web Services messaging format. [Apr. 16, 2002]
Web Services - An Executive Summary This executive summary from O'Reilly Research's report, "Planning for Web Services," gives a high level overview of the promises and pitfalls of web services. [Apr. 12, 2002]
Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work The web services hype machine promises us a "revolution" bringing another "paradigm-shift." Clay Shirky explores if, despite the overselling, there may just be something there -- or maybe not. [Oct. 3, 2001]
