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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com

    A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line podcast series. Topic covered include Facebook APIs...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-19-2007
  • Enterpise mashups with Salesforce.com

    In San Francisco this morning for Salesforce.com conference, Dreamforce 07 . Am here (along with Ted , Brad and Lyle from Bungee Labs)...we're frankly wowwing a few Saleforce.com customers and developers with a couple of cool videos, demos and real-world apps created on Bungee Connect . Here's a demo...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-17-2007
  • 6 Google APIs - the Lesser Known

    Adam Ostrow at Mashable has written up a non-technical introduction to Google's most popular APIs and links to some applications built using these. His post prompted me to revisit Google's own Google APIs page this morning which lists some 36 services available to programmers. Although they are not all...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-09-2007
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