Accept things as they are. Craig Burton , who was a leading thinker at Novell in the 80s and 90s counsels that there's nothing wrong with multiple wire protocols, and I agree. Killer apps The quest for killer apps is moving along. This morning three were announced. Please support them any way you can, and develop your own.
Ideas are here .
I'd like to work with a search engine on an XML-RPC interface, asap. We get pounded, and most of the traffic is wasted. We want to work with the most aggressive crawlers, our users want their sites to be indexed, but we have to spend too much time and money to allow the crawlers in. BigCo's I am lobbying the BigCo's to support XML-RPC in addition to SOAP 1.1. If we play our cards right, they will, imho.