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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...
What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?
In March 2007, this article by Bryan Richard discussed the the implications of Software as a Service ( SaaS ) with respect to the GPL licence . "Conservative estimate: In the future 75% of your applications will be delivered over a computer network and...
And of Dynamics Live CRM SaaS APIs?
Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service...
More APIs from eBay, PayPal and Skype
More travel, now in Boston where I'm attending the eBay Developers Conference . Couple of interesting data points and announcements from this morning's keynote presentation and Product announcements : 9.2 billion API calls and 14.28 billion $USD gross...
Posted: Jun 11 2007, 12:39 PM by alexbarnett | with 5 comment(s)
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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...
Posted: May 31 2007, 12:09 PM by alexbarnett | with 3 comment(s)
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Bungee Labs - interviews on Podtech
Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices , popped over to the Bungee Labs offices a couple of weeks back and recorded two video interviews for Podtech . Here they are: Bungee Labs and Their Ajax-Based IDE "After years of working with developers at Microsoft...
Announcing Bungee Connect
At last, I can tell you more about what Bungee Labs has been up to... We've just announced details about Bungee Connect, a 100% on-demand web development and deployment environment that will be going into Beta phase in May. Over the next three days...
7 Thoughts on the Business of API Throttling
John Musser over at ProgrammableWeb.com has summarized the various ways (he's outlined 12) API providers can control access to their web services . As John says, "There are good reasons for this ranging from preventing abuse, controlling costs...
So what do we mean by the 'Internet Cloud'?
Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics....
Scalability at Amazon (notes)
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com spoke at Supernova 2006 on the topic of Scalability at Amazon and the talk is available as a podcast at IT Conversations ( thanks to James Governor for the link ). I made some notes as I listened this morning and thought...
APIs, APIs APIs!!!!! (And Learn As You Play)
We're seeing the beginnings of something very, very big here - Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo!: "Today's news is that the Yahoo! Mail API that we previewed at last year's Open Hack Day is now available to all developers. It speaks both SOAP...
Does REST need a WSDL?
First read this (written by Marc Hadley ) "This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications...
Create a Mashup and win $25K
Microsoft, BT and Top Coder have launched a competition encouraging developers to build 'managed network mashups' using BT's Connected Services Sandbox (an implementation of Microsoft's Connected Services Framework - CSF ). From Top Coder's...
Live Search SOAP API - Out of Beta
Nathan Buggia has announced news that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of beta. Interesting question Nathan asks at the end of his post - " I know the SOAP API is all fine and dandy for the Java or ASP.Net developers out there, but what about...
StumbleVideo - a sign of things to come
Mash-ups will be big. Yet, as Dion Hinchcliffe points out , the number of mash-ups released per day may not be huge today (three per day, according to the data on ProgrammableWeb ). But they will be on the increase, and the more APIs there are available...
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