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Edd Dumbill from XML.com interviewed Jeff Barr about Amazon Web Services. In the interview Jeff notes, "The REST model is particularly good [at providing fast development], since [developers] can do their prototyping and initial exploration in the browser, modifying the URL and refreshing (which I sometimes like to call 'URL surgery.')." I couldn't agree more, and I wish more people developing Web Services would realize that simplicity is key to wide adoption. (Though, as Jeff also notes, providing simplicity isn't simple.)