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The Great Bungee Jump
Well, the great Bungee Jump has come. Martin Plaehn, CEO of Bungee Labs has shared the news of the company the letting go of 15 regular employees and contractors . Unfortunately, I am among this set of affected Bungee Labs employees. A Voyage of Discovery...
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...
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. But...
Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)
Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a...
Geek Juice
Yup, I've definitely been missing my feedreader (and now FeedDemon is free I really have no excuses to catch up). So much good stuff out there, so little time! Here's a sample of the good stuff I've been running into... MVC, I know what you're thinking...
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...
Microsoft missing out on Community talents
Todd Bishop at Seattle Post-Intelligencer has picked up on the fact that Korby Parnell , ex-product manager for some of Microsoft's most successful developer community-related projects (e.g. Codeplex, Gotdotnet and Claimspace - but that's another story...
The Web Standards Fluster Cuck
Clucking bell, Molly Holzshlag really has kicked the web standards beehive with a blog post expressing her great discontent with the W3C and WaSP . Ridiculously Inadequate Backgrounder Now, before you head off and read the post and the 60+ comments, here...
Back from a short blogging break
Sorry for my recent silence on the blog - a combination of lots of travel (tomorrow will be my second full weekend in Utah since moving here three months ago) and the usual start-up madness has caused a need for an occasional (and healthy) break from...
Ted, Korby, Claimspace and trust
Korby Parnell , Ted and I me met up and talked about Claimspace . This is what Ted thought ...here's a taster: "From what Korby showed me, over time Claimspace could solve many of the needs that Alex and I have identified for Bungee Lab’s community infrastructure...
The Future of Mozilla Matters
What does a microformat-aware web browser look like? Richard MacManus has some of the answers , summarizing this presentation made by Alex Faaborg at the Web 2.0 Expo event a couple of weeks back. Cool, eh? Interesting, but this use of microformats in...
Map of online communities and related points of interest
Map of online communities and related points of interest . (Geopgraphic area represents estimated size of membership. Do not use for navigation) Via apophenia .
Posted: May 06 2007, 09:45 PM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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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...
Wiki risks
I've not seen this Channel 9 video yet, but plan to - it's a interview (part 2 of 2) with MSDN team members discussing Korby's baby, the MSDN Wiki: "Don't know about you people, but I look at community involvement as being a great...
Microsoft's MSDN Forums - community building
Josh Ledgard, a program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, has posted some details on the challenges in supporting the large number of Microsoft developers. What strikes me here is the 'transparency' of Josh's post in terms of...
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