Alex Barnett blog

Stuff

Browse by Tags

All Tags » trends (RSS)
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...
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
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...
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...
8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms
To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came...
Geo-crime mashups
I think I've hit a personal first: a depressing mashup. Oakland Crimestopping is a Flash-based vizualization tool overlaying reported crime data in Oakland, CA, by type (from aggrevated assault to murder to burglary) and time on a Virtual Earth map. Fortunately...
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers
Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year...
Irrelevant Programming Languages (Or, Lingo Not to Learn)
Mike Hendrickson has been analyzing some of Q1 2007 computer book sales data , where he's called out languages you'd be best served avoiding if you are young programmer... "The following languages all sold between 1 and 99 units in Q1 '07. These are what...
A "one-third probability"
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as seeing a “one-third probability” of recession in the United States this year, according to an interview with Bloomberg. I'd say he has a 33% probability of being right.
Online, Video-based Technical Support Networks (on YouTube)
Chris Pirillo has a very interesting experiment going on YouTube. In a series of videos called Help! ( here's the latest ), he's recording answers technical / PC troubleshooting on his webcam and then uploading those recordings on to YouTube....
Q406 computer books sales
Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends...
On Web Dev Trends in 2007
Richard MacManus et al have published their web predictions for 2007 (prompting me to update the list I've been collating ). Great post and lots covered, so I'd like to comment on some of Read/Write Web's crystal ball gazing relating to web...
Web 2.0, Tech and Online Media - Predictions for 2007
It's only mid November and I've found plenty of opinions already predicting 2007 trends for the web (2.0) / tech / online media markets. I've listed some of my finds below. No doubt I'll come across few more before the end of the year...
More Posts