What a title! Are we already getting past Web services? Our panelists are: Christian Gheorghe, Graham Glass, Dick Hardt.

The audience is surprisingly unreceptive to the panel. Many apparently feel that Web services are either over-hyped and/or the existing success of Web services is being ignored. I.e., the wrong aspects are being hyped. Web services aren’t a panacea but are already a part of the development landscape, used in un-hypey, step-by-step ways.

Says Alex Sherstinsky of FaceTime Communications: “It is happening within the enterprise but not on the Internet-wide scale.”

Dave Winer makes a plea for doing the simple thing: Create Web services that open up your app, and publish the info them. Ignore the complications of UDDI and WSDL. (Here’s an interview of Dave by Dan.)

The final question raise: Will Web services enable a Hypercard economy where power users write the equivalent of macros to pull information together?

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