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Why OData Matters (IMHO)

Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010
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
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
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
Geek Juice

Yup, I've definitely been missing my feedreader (and now FeedDemon is free I really have no excuses to catch up). So much good stuff out there, so little time! Here's a sample of the good stuff I've been running into... MVC, I know what you're thinking... Haacked shares his MVC joke - " So A Model, A...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-29-2008
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
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
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
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
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

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