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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...
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention...
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...
Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define...
I think I might have failed the Turing test.
In March 2007, I naively asked if REST needs a WSDL and if yes, was WADL the one (Web Application Description Language). The conversation goes on , but I thought the video below and pointers might be of interest to those who have an opinion one way or...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It looks like the Google / Salesforce.com partnership rumours are stirring up again this week, with a conf call scheduled for this Tuesday AM causing the renewed suspicions. Normally, I wouldn't be so interested in "gossip" until I hear actual announcements...
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...
Good thing I held on to those MSFT stocks - Microsoft grew more than a whole of Google's sales this last quarter : "Of course, even Microsoft's growth pales in comparison to Google's, which posted a 66% rise in sales in the quarter, from...
I missed this yesterday, but biggish news in the Ajax-o-sphere - Brad Abrams and Brandon Le Roy announced Microsoft is joining the OpenAjaxAlliance . From the press release : ""Microsoft is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance to collaborate with other...
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