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More Google / Salesforce.com partnership rumours
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...
Bungee Connect - Beta Opening Day
Last night the Bungee Labs team invited the first group of developers to Bungee Connect, officially opening up the early access beta program . The initial group of early access customers is small, but we intend to ramp up quickly as we carefully monitor...
REST / ROA / Astoria / SOA
Jon Udell, rightly so, is getting excited about the new book RESTful Web Services , by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby - a book I myself got excited about in November ( REST Web Services and ROA ) when I wrote at the time: "My bet is that this project...
Posted: May 24 2007, 04:46 PM by alexbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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Mashup design patterns
<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of...
Salesforce - Marc Benioff keynote
I'm here at the Salesforce Dev Conference in Santa Clara this morning and listening to Marc Benioff keynote who started his session 30 mins ago. First he opened up with acknowledgement that there is a the Google / Salesforce rumour flying around this...
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...
I'll be at MIX07
I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be....
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...
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...
Oriented Vs Orientated
Harry Pierson (DevHawk) has sensibly considered the use of the word 'Service' in the contexts of the terms (concepts) Software as a Service ( SaaS ) and Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ), arriving at the following conclusion: "Service...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 09:13 AM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Adobe on Apollo Compeitors
Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent...
JSON - are you ready?
Assaf's post cracked me up this morning - JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition? . Here's a sample: The problem with JSON is … (item: true) [ ] I never used it, so I wouldn’t know. [ ] That’s why...
Posted: Mar 16 2007, 10:39 AM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Now my wife will become a Cisco customer instead.
More acquisitions news: this time Cisco will acquire WebEx . I find this particularly interesting as my wife has been WebEx WebOffice customer for some years now. She runs a small business and in 2001 she was looking for her own intranet-type workgroup...
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