Parleys.com: REST - The Better Web Services Model

Web services are perceived as the ubiquitous solution to interoperable integration both within and across company boundaries. But despite their name, Web services don't build on the Web - on the contrary, to a large degree, they ignore the principles that have turned the Web into the world's most successful, scalable,distributed and loosely-coupled application.

The presentation will introduce the principles of REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the Web's architecture, and address how to map advanced enterprise scenarios to an architecture that uses HTTP and the Web instead of abusing it.