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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
And of Dynamics Live CRM SaaS APIs?

Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service version of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: "Businesses...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-10-2007
More APIs from eBay, PayPal and Skype

More travel, now in Boston where I'm attending the eBay Developers Conference . Couple of interesting data points and announcements from this morning's keynote presentation and Product announcements : 9.2 billion API calls and 14.28 billion $USD gross merchandive volume for Q1 of 2007. Phew! eBay Shopping...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-11-2007
At Google Developer Day 2007

I'm at the San Jose-based Google Developer Day, hearing more about the news that's been getting the blogosphere and media pretty excited , especially the news of Google Gears - their first foray into the Occasionally Connected Computing space (or RIA), a model that's getting more and more interest by...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-31-2007
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, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-19-2007
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 at the Web 2.0 Expo 2007 and on bungeeconnect.com...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-16-2007
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, or other business-driven reasons." John triggered...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-06-2007
So what do we mean by the 'Internet Cloud'?

Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics... Maybe I see the 'cloud' as over-developed green...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-04-2007
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 I'd share: A services business. Amazon.com...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-01-2007

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