Clouds and hypertext

There are some actual architectural constraints that help these "Cloud" applications make rain, not just drizzle. One of them, and the one that has been almost entirely missing in so-called "GeoWeb" applications to date, is hypertext.

Speaking of Atom, Joe Gregorio has recently made a neat video introduction to AtomPub.

Update (2008-08-04): "It's almost as if the [Web was] designed for this stuff."