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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...
OAuth Podcast
Chris Messina (aka FactoryJoe ), Larry Halff (of Ma.gnolia ) and Eran Hammer-Lahav accepted our invitation to join Ted and me and discuss OAuth in our latest Bungee Line podcast . What is OAuth? From OAuth Getting Started - Part 1 , here's the jist of...
Playing with Zoho DB
Via Read/WriteWeb , I heard of Zoho DB this morning. Am playing around and I like it. I've uploaded my LibraryThing book catalog into a new Zoho DB and can publish one of the views I've defined as an embedded view into this blog post, providing some basic...
Podcast with Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! - Part 1
The latest Bungee Line podcast is up - this time an interview with Jeremy Zawodny , an 8-year-veteran of Yahoo! and currently a member of the Yahoo Developer Network team . Lots covered, so much so that we had to break up the interview into two parts...
Presenting at AJAXWorld, Santa Clara
This coming Monday I'll be presenting at AJAXWorld in Santa Clara , 10:10 - 10:55am One of the demos I'll be showing off and demonstrating how to build is and deploy this Flickr / Google Maps using Bungee Connect to program against their REST(ish) service...
Podcast with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com
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...
Enterpise mashups with Salesforce.com
In San Francisco this morning for Salesforce.com conference, Dreamforce 07 . Am here (along with Ted , Brad and Lyle from Bungee Labs)...we're frankly wowwing a few Saleforce.com customers and developers with a couple of cool videos, demos and real-world...
6 Google APIs - the Lesser Known
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...
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2
Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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