I agree, and it's certainly what I want as a developer. But, if I was building a web service that was supposed to be widely used (maybe some like the Yelp or F

I agree, and it's certainly what I want as a developer. But, if I was building a web service that was supposed to be widely used (maybe some like the Yelp or Facebook API), I might think about REST. You know it's going to be immediately understood by everyone, and you don't have to worry about weird dependencies. And, being able to show examples using just curl is kind of nice, too.