Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

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

A really intriguing concept!

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 ....

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

awesome video. Thanks a lot!

Good talk, great concept, much appreciated!

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.

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.

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.

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.