Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is interviewed on the success of Amazon. He states very nicely that they are using services at Amazon to make this large web application scale.

My personal QOTD on this interview comes from Ian Davis:

Yeah, I like all that. But I want it bigger and I want anyone to be able to do it

As Danny Ayers notes Chris Bizer and Richard Cyganiak yesterday announced a RDF version of DBLP, the popular computer science publication database. More info can be found on their D2R Server DBLP page.

Danny Ayers posted the link to The ultimate mashup — Web services and the semantic Web, Part 1: Use and combine Web services over at IBM’s developerWorks. I am allready curious about the other 5 parts of this tutorial series: In Part 6, the fun increases. At this point, you have a working application and the framework in place so that the system can use semantic reasoning to understand the services at its disposal. In this part, you give the user control, enabling him or her to map new services into the ontology and to pick and choose the data that is used for a custom mashup.