via ross.typepad.com
More at Ross’ blog and at Read-Write Web, where a thoughtful Aaron Fulkerson weighs in on the question of RESTful APIs et al.
Much remains to be tested and evaluated, albeit it sounds promising – Oliver Marks blogs:
“The ‘unbundling’ of the microblogging appliance is possible because of Socialtext’s web oriented architecture; the presentation layer is built on their REST api using javascript but can be uncoupled to allow modularization. Extensive customization of the entire suite to meet an enterprise’s specific needs is possible because of the same api and presentation layer logic.”