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  • Join me at Web 2.0 Expo New York - Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0

    I'll be taking part in one of the Cloud computing panels at Web 2.0 Expo New York this September, details below. If you want to meet up, let me know. Building in the Clouds: Scaling Web 2.0 Jason Hoffman (Joyent, Inc.), Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent), Alex Barnett , Dwight Merriman (10gen), Jinesh Varia...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-08-2008
  • 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
  • Mashup design patterns

    <warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of data access over the web. Dion's perspective is...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-22-2007
  • 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
  • 7 Thoughts on the Business of API Throttling

    John Musser over at ProgrammableWeb.com has summarized the various ways (he's outlined 12) API providers can control access to their web services . As John says, "There are good reasons for this ranging from preventing abuse, controlling costs, or other business-driven reasons." John triggered...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-06-2007
  • Tagging behind the *firewall* - a case study

    I've written about 'Enterprise Tagging' or 'tagging behind the firewall' before, but haven't come across any case study material in this area, until yesterday that is. In his latest post, Andrew McAfee has written up a short report on the intranet used at interactive agency Avenue...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-19-2006
  • Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change

    Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School has identified a user segment within organizations that he describes as the 'Empty Quarter' . The context is within the types of users who become the early adopters of Enterprise 2.0' applications (or social media behind...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-10-2006
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