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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
Social Clouds, XML 10 Years Old, and Honourable Mentions

The Social Cloud Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats . In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social networks in a presentation called The Social Cloud . Great backgrounder to...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-12-2008
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's a bit of background on why I find this post...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-13-2007
How to contradict yourself in two easy steps

How to contradict yourself in two easy steps: Step 1. Dare Obasajno (a PM at Microsoft) argues that anyone comparing Adobe's Apollo and Microsoft's Silverlight by mentioning them in "the same sentence as if they are similar products" is proof that [ "popular technology blog pundits" ] don't "do much...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-23-2007
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 morning but explained that he wouldn't comment on...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-21-2007
Congrats to 'Rich' Ryan

Congratulations to Ryan Stewart on his new role at Adobe as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist on the Platform Team. Great catch for Adobe. Actually stating how well you are paid, eh Ryan?...now that's transparency for you...does imply Adobe also has 'poor' Internet Application Evangelists too? ;...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-19-2007
Adobe on Apollo Compeitors

Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent Slingshot + magnetk , Yahoo! Widgets and Firefox...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-25-2007
Adobe's Apollo goes alpha

Ryan Stewart has the scoop and links to Adobe's Apollo which has just released to alpha. For details, check out the Apollo Developer FAQ .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2007
2007 to be a big year for 'Rich Internet Applications'

The following is a short description of Adobe's play for 2007 - Apollo - big news in my opinion: "Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 12-16-2006

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