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This is truly the wave of the future – application mashups based on public APIs.

My particular fascination, related to semantic technology, is the creation and use of API ontologies that would assemble services on the fly based on the meaning of requests and their interpretation across services (viz. what DAML was supposed to be about).

I think that the SW world chickened out when it retreated from agent-based services, based on accusations that it was going to flounder about in the world of “Artificial Intelligence.”