{"id":643,"date":"2013-12-23T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-12-23T09:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:54:02","slug":"a-dataflow-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"A Dataflow Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFacebook released a plugin <a href='http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/12\/20\/you-can-now-build-an-interactive-mobile-app-no-code-required-thanks-to-facebook\/'>for Quartz Composer<\/a> which lets you design interactive mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s interesting. I don&#8217;t really know anything about Quartz. But I believe it&#8217;s like Max\/MSP or PureData. A &#8220;dataflow&#8221; design system. Dataflow makes a lot of sense for plumbing together multiple services. And I&#8217;ve long believed it could \/ should be applied to orchestrating web-scale systems. For a while I hoped that Yahoo Pipes would go in this direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo will this be successful? On first glance, it looks like they&#8217;re trying to work at a very low level with the diagrams. In Max\/MSP and PD, this is actually more fiddly than writing code. It&#8217;s the larger scale where diagrams shine. Still, it may well take off with a certain audience. Interesting move. I wonder if someone will try to copy it in Max or PD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook released a plugin for Quartz Composer which lets you design interactive mobile apps. That&#8217;s interesting. I don&#8217;t really know anything about Quartz. But I believe it&#8217;s like Max\/MSP or PureData. A &#8220;dataflow&#8221; design system. Dataflow makes a lot of sense for plumbing together multiple services. And I&#8217;ve long believed it could \/ should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,361],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dataflow","tag-pure-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}