Web Service Talk Begins!

Web Service Talk (WST) will be a blog to focus on a monthly discussion of specific webapps and web services. For instance, let's say that the first month will be about todo lists. I will begin by posting reviews of quality todo webapps. I will talk about what each webapp does well and what they need to work on.

There will be a post at the beginning of each month outlining what I think are important features and principles of each webapp category. This post will also allow readers to add what they think are important features or what they disagree with about my chosen principles/features. I will post updates throughout the given month as to what readers have agreed with me on and what they think is important (in regards to their favorite app for that category or in general).

This initial post will also detail what is marketable and what are some good marketing techniques for each web service category. Todo lists have a particular market that is better served with different marketing techniques that focus on that particular market. There is even more differentiation in terms of what the particular Todo list app is trying to accomplish. If there is a todo webapp for students then there will be different techniques and even different design principles.

All of these things will be discussed and documented so as to provide ample material from a more informative perspective than some of the bigger blogs that focus on whether or not the webapp will do well or whether they provide a 'cool feature.' I believe there is much more at work and there is much to be documented in this expanding world of web services. To stoop to the level of these megablogs though, this blog will attempt to find and document what exactly are the 'cool features' and what are ways to integrate them well into our world and our daily activity.

I hope you enjoy the ride and I hope that people will participate as I plan on integrating much of what the commenters say into what is discussed and even what will be the next month's treatment.

The first order of business is to decide on what the first web service topic should be! If anyone has any ideas, please drop a comment in and we can begin to decide what April's topic will be! :)