Great post. Thank you. I completely agree with you about defining a spec and about microformat standards. Microformat standards are in really early stages at the moment, and the spec for interactions is necessarily going to be fairly complex … unless something can act as the “glue”. Specifically, I mean two things. First, a service that takes care of the sequencing, so that things work “automagically” together in the right order. Second, a service that does the right transforms, takes care of state issues and handles everything from provisioning to routing of federated identity to backup.

My company, Teqlo, is working on providing a web based bus, as a service. We’re in early alpha stage, but “automagical” engine is certainly working!

- Rod

It seemed like you would save yourself a lot of work, but stop just short of the logical conclusion of just letting it run on automagic.

I think I’m thinking “If you’ve got this glass bus… why do you need people except for the hairy edge cases?”