Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

[123contactform]

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[VondaFoni]

The World Of tomorrow Awaits.

[youbaboon]

kinda like the way webhoks have been presented by lindsey

[AlertGrid]

Check out the AlertGrid. It's a service where you can set up a 'receiver' objects that listen to events emitted by webhooks. You can then create rules to handle these events: send notifications by email, sms, phone, or even forward it to other (multiple) webhooks. Basically it's a big event handler, where you can easily manage events from multiple sources. Meant for dispatching notifications but thanks to webhook templates - it can do anything...

[MistaJenshen]

Great content! I just recently thought of having so called "Web Glue" that would adapt different interfaces and allow service integration between any website... So glad it is there and evolving!... It should be natural thing for Web apps...

[progrium]

If you look up the talk I gave at Pivotal Labs, I was a bit more collected.

[drtyse4]

A really intriguing concept!

[dazraf]

There's one very important difference between web hooks and the use of pipes in the Unix command-line: you can't create cyclic pipes chains in Unix. With web-hooks you can create cycles. So ... my question is how do we ensure that hooked webapps are not accidently (or maliciously) setup to create loops ....

[DrewLeSueur2]

awesome video. Thanks a lot!

[ultimadj]

Good talk, great concept, much appreciated!

[eloyz]

Enjoyed the topic and the presentation preparation. Overall sweet, his delivery is not the focus ... the idea is. Now it's up to us take the hook and run with it, like scissors.

[robinboast]

I don't know which is more lame, Jeff's style of presentation or the comments. Jeff Lindsay may not be the world's greatest public speaker, to say the least, but this is one of the most important presentations on YouTube this year. See the latest reviews of Web Hooks on Ribbit and on O'Reilly.

[weedipikia]

He is a pretty good speaker in my opinion actually. A lot of being a good speaker is being a good explainer, and not letting your ego shine through. He nails both.

[robinboast]

I think you missed the irony of my comment. Yes, Jeff is a very poor public speaker, but webhooks, and his work on webhooks, are really important. He is a very bright guy and, regardless of his public speaking ability, he may well change the way we use the web. That is pretty awsome.

[nieaka]

The problem with the idea of web hooks is that there is no specification, so the parts can't interconnect easily. when an event is triggered, data needs to be pushed from a service to a client.

With no specification, there is no way for the client to know what format to expect the data in, or which fields will be provided. This makes interconnection hard, is the 'how' of this topic,and is the reason it has not yet exploded onto the scene.

[Paul94117]

Fewer "umm" comments would have really improved this presentation immensely!!

[weedipikia]

Only if you listen only for the "umms" in each video. I didn't notice him say "umm" once until I read your comment.

[sliderrrrrrrrr]

I'm under the impression that hes hyperventilating through the complete talk :)

[GlobalFantasyDirect]

That guy is a complete dork.

[tuxsbro]

nice talk, I also like how you fullscreened the slideshow and had him in a box