Web services

main international standards organization for the World Wide Web

World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites

service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the World Wide Web

extension of the Web to facilitate data exchange

architectural pattern in software design

SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle", a recursive acronym for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is an RDF query language—that is, a semantic query language for databases—able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is recognized as one of the key technologies of the semantic web. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL 1.0 was acknowledged by W3C as an official recommendation, and SPARQL 1.1 in March, 2013.

cloud-based services and infrastructure from Google

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runtime and set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications

Amazon cloud computing platform

standards organization

OpenShift is a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. Its flagship product, OpenShift Container Platform, is a hybrid cloud platform as a service built around Linux containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. OKD (Origin Community Distribution) serves as the community-driven upstream.

micro-work service subsidiary of Amazon

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.

IFTTT (, an acronym of if this, then that) is a private commercial company that runs services that allow a user to program a response to events in the world.

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers. DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and SMBs with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.

identifier for resources made using Unicode/ISO 10646 characters specified by RFC 3987

web services framework

web-service framework from Apache Software Foundation

Blackle is an internet search engine powered by Google Programmable Search Engine. It was created by Toby Heap of Heap Media Australia with the goal of saving energy by displaying a black background with grayish-white text color on search results. As of July 2023, Blackle claims to have saved over 10.07 MWh of electrical energy.

cloud storage service offered by Google's Cloud Platform

compute service used to run virtual machines offered by Google Cloud

BigQuery is a managed, serverless data warehouse product by Google, offering scalable analysis over large quantities of data. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports querying using a dialect of SQL and Graph Query Language. It also has built-in machine learning capabilities. BigQuery was announced in May 2010 and made generally available in November 2011.

Linode () is an American cloud hosting provider that focuses on providing Linux-based virtual machines and cloud infrastructure.

discontinued identity selector app by Microsoft

software for Web services

JSON-RPC (JavaScript Object Notation-Remote Procedure Call) is a JSON-based wire protocol for remote procedure calls (RPC). It is similar to the XML-RPC protocol, defining only a few data types and commands. JSON-RPC allows for notifications (data sent to the server that does not require a response) and for multiple calls to be sent to the server which may be answered asynchronously.

structured language used to describe Web applications

service offered by Amazon Web Services

Industry consortium to promote web services interoperability

Mibbit was a web-based client for web browsers that supports Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Yahoo! Messenger, and Twitter. It is developed by Jimmy Moore and is designed around the Ajax model with a user interface written in JavaScript. It was the IRC application setup by default on Firefox. Following an announcement on the website homepage, Mibbit shut down on August 30th, 2024. They suggested Kiwi IRC as replacement.

open source, multi-cloud application platform as a service

Orchestration service offered by Amazon Web Services

Microwork is a series of many small tasks which together comprise a large, unified project completed by many people over the Internet. Microwork is considered the smallest unit of work in a virtual assembly line. It is most often used to describe tasks for which no efficient algorithm has been devised and require human intelligence to complete reliably. The term was developed in 2008 by Leila Chirayath Janah of Samasource.

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Internet component

web services framework

XML language proposed by IBM to describe the composition of Web services

architectural pattern, where a large front-end is developed in independent parts

OWL-S is an ontology built on top of Web Ontology Language (OWL) by the DARPA DAML program. It replaces the former DAML-S ontology. "OWL-S is an ontology, within the OWL-based framework of the Semantic Web, for describing Semantic Web Services. It will enable users and software agents to automatically discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources offering services, under specified constraints."

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux, and OS X. It was created in 2008 by Colin Percival. Tarsnap encrypts data, and then stores it on Amazon S3.

software development kit