Interoperatibily, Interoperatibily, and Interoperatibily

In my post, that’s a follow up of Reuven Cohen initial thoughts about UCI,  I’m  analysing the same point of view of this new Reuven Cohen’s post.

We already have a lot of technologies that could be used as a starting point to make this Cloud world a better place in the interoperability perspective. As Reuven  also said, Cisco is moving in this direction, but you cannot forget other examples, as the recent work done by Microsoft with its Azure and Geneva. In contrast to what they usually do, this time they could (in same aspect) be used as an example.   I’m following closely the work on the Geneva platforms, and Identity 2.0 platforms,  but Azure also has interesting architect decisions.

Widget development for TV and for us all

The recent agreement between Yahoo and Samsung is very interesting for us tech guys. Will we be able to create new applications (and make money) for TV?  Will this extend the reach of YouTube and create more market for others in the same market (like Joost, etc.) and even for other companies (like Microsoft, Facebook, etc.)?

The answer for me for both questions is yes, although I think that this will take time to accomplish because we have many TV brands (with different hardware and software) and widget platforms (from Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc.) and  they also need to come on board and make agreements between them.

But if we start to see many different APIs (one for each TV/widget platform) we will be faced with a problem because the effort to build óur killer application will significantly increase. A OpenSocial like effort would speed up things to the benefit of us all.