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Why OData Matters (IMHO)

Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010
Federated Apps on the Intuit Partner Platform

So what have I been working on since joining Intuit? A bunch of stuff, but something I wanted to shout about is the release of “Federated Applications” on the Intuit Partner Platform . Working closely with five new developers to Intuit's Platform as a Service (PaaS), VerticalResponse , DimDim , Rypple...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-03-2009
Joining Intuit

Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pursuit for the next adventure - I have really appreciated everyone's support and interest in my next steps. The great news is I'll be joining Intuit as a Group...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2008
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 ( SaaS ) and cloud-based computing accelerates...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-15-2008
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 I can see the slide deck discussing the Twitter...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-01-2008
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)

As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-04-2008
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 someone you think we should interview, let me know...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-20-2008
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 across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008
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 data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007
What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?

In March 2007, this article by Bryan Richard discussed the the implications of Software as a Service ( SaaS ) with respect to the GPL licence . "Conservative estimate: In the future 75% of your applications will be delivered over a computer network and you will interact with them with no "transfer of...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-12-2007

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