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The Great Bungee Jump

Well, the great Bungee Jump has come. Martin Plaehn, CEO of Bungee Labs has shared the news of the company the letting go of 15 regular employees and contractors . Unfortunately, I am among this set of affected Bungee Labs employees. A Voyage of Discovery As Martin explained in today's post , Bungee...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-27-2008
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
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
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
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
Microsoft missing out on Community talents

Todd Bishop at Seattle Post-Intelligencer has picked up on the fact that Korby Parnell , ex-product manager for some of Microsoft's most successful developer community-related projects (e.g. Codeplex, Gotdotnet and Claimspace - but that's another story ) has been nabbed by Yahoo's Seattle office ( Chad...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-30-2007
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
Back from a short blogging break

Sorry for my recent silence on the blog - a combination of lots of travel (tomorrow will be my second full weekend in Utah since moving here three months ago) and the usual start-up madness has caused a need for an occasional (and healthy) break from blogging. Matt Asay's post has motivated me to push...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-23-2007
Ted, Korby, Claimspace and trust

Korby Parnell , Ted and I me met up and talked about Claimspace . This is what Ted thought ...here's a taster: "From what Korby showed me, over time Claimspace could solve many of the needs that Alex and I have identified for Bungee Lab’s community infrastructure. In fact, according to Korby, community...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-23-2007

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