Only caught part of this session, as it was on the last day and had to leave early to catch my flight.Nikhil Kothari is the Software Architect in the UI Framework group and his talk mainly focussed on consuming and building mash-ups, enabling and authoring gadgets and services. He demonstrated an application – musicMix that was built on Atlas.
“Programmable Web” a buzz word that’s part of the ‘tag cloud’ of Web 2.0 words that includes AJAX, Feeds, Gadgets, Social Web, REST, RSS, JSON Mash-up, so and so forth.
Web is transforming from a publishing medium into a platform, that enables the building of mash-ups, services, gadgets, shared data formats(live clipboard)
Client logic requests server side logic (which is a proxy to external service)- Atlas provides a way to access a service through script
