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Open Source in a SaaS World

About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) and cloud-based computing accelerates...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-15-2008
So what is this Platform as a Service thing?

The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the PaaS wars begin" I think fairly captures the mood and...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-08-2008
Podcast interviews - smart people in the world of the web

One of the fun parts of my job at Bungee Labs is to partner up with Ted and interview some smart people in the world of the web. We publish these as a podcast series ( the Bungee Line - podcast feed here ) over on the BCDN blog . If you have ideas about someone you think we should interview, let me know...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-20-2008
Podcast with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com

A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line podcast series. Topic covered include Facebook APIs...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-19-2007
6 Google APIs - the Lesser Known

Adam Ostrow at Mashable has written up a non-technical introduction to Google's most popular APIs and links to some applications built using these. His post prompted me to revisit Google's own Google APIs page this morning which lists some 36 services available to programmers. Although they are not all...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-09-2007
Google Maps API support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results - jolly good!

The Google Maps API blog has announced support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results. I won't go into why I think this is cool right now (no time!), but it is cool. If you haven't heard of microformats or understand why the standard is getting attention from a huge player like Google, then...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-31-2007
RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs

Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007
At Google Developer Day 2007

I'm at the San Jose-based Google Developer Day, hearing more about the news that's been getting the blogosphere and media pretty excited , especially the news of Google Gears - their first foray into the Occasionally Connected Computing space (or RIA), a model that's getting more and more interest by...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-31-2007
Alex Barnett Podcasts

Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio-management package delivered in both a SaaS and...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-23-2006

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