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Dion Hinchcliffe offers another nice visual for considering technologies to use in buidling online services and comments with the tried and true;

“Folks want the easiest thing that works … So favor simple and elegant over complex and hard-to-use. Start looking hard at RSS, REST, maybe even SSE.”