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  • The Third Order of Order

    I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger 's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it in such a way as to greatly further and deepen my...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-09-2008
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
  • Premonition video? - OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

    When the directors of this video dreamed up the "OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash" scenario, I bet they didn't expect this to happen quite so soon after their premonition: "The Web 2.0 datacenter 365 Main, in the heart of SOMA, just lost power. Sites that are affected include Craigstlist...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-24-2007
  • 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
  • Does REST need a WSDL?

    First read this (written by Marc Hadley ) "This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications that provide access to their internal data using...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-13-2007
  • Thinking with a hyperlinked-content processor

    Alex Pang's post Thinking with a word processor led me to ask myself... This question: How does my trawling / tagging / blogging / processing of hyperlinked content affect my thinking? Answer: Immeasurably, I suspect.
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-23-2007
  • Thoughts on 'Reinventing the Internet' and Identity

    Jason Kolb has been writing a great series of posts called 'Reinventing the Internet'. I've been bookmarking and sharing some of these posts via Del.icio.us (and if you're sub'd to me, you would have seen these in my feed). Dipping in and out of these since the first post of his series...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-08-2006
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