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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
See Results of Bungee Connect's Intern DevFest 2008

In late 2007, fifty Computer Science university students applied for 2008 internships at Bungee Labs . We flew nine of the most promising applicants from around the US to join Bungee Labs for our first “Intern DevFest”. Over a 24 hour period the students had to extend WideLens - the Bungee Connect calendaring...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-28-2008
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens

Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-05-2008
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 service delivered purely in the cloud. Since we announced...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-19-2008
Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups.

SaaS / DaaS / WaaS (Whatever As a Service) and Mashups Nick Carr quotes Henry Adams in Among the dynamos “One lingered long among the dynamos,” he wrote, “for they were new, and they gave to history a new phase. Pointing to SaaS Platforms trends , Clive Keyte write about " SaaS Management Platforms ...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2008
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
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 it: "OAuth allows you to share your private resources...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-03-2007
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, Part 1 and er, Part two. In Part 1 we discussed:...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-01-2007
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 APIs. I'll also demo a Microsoft Exchange plus...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2007

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