Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

Jeff Lindsay ( http://www.progrium.com ) at Google talking about Web Hooks. Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/progrium/web-hooks-google-tech-talk

This talk introduces the concept of web hooks: simple HTTP callbacks with huge implications. This model allows web services to be customized by the user and tightly integrated with each other unlike anything before. Chock-full of demos and real world examples, this talk also shares an under-appreciated vision of the web that most of the experts have missed: a vision of user-generated functionality and the *real* programmable web.

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[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.

[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...

[phonesplanet]

this is future..

[123contactform]

For syncronizing web forms with Web Hooks check out 123ContactForm generator.

You can use it to create forms that will import submitted data as content of a webpage, fill out pre-made printable documents, basically extend the usability of basic forms with any scripts you wish without programming effort, in the blink of an eye.

[VondaFoni]

The World Of tomorrow Awaits.

[youbaboon]

kinda like the way webhoks have been presented by lindsey

[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 ....

[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.