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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
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008
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
Geo-crime mashups

I think I've hit a personal first: a depressing mashup. Oakland Crimestopping is a Flash-based vizualization tool overlaying reported crime data in Oakland, CA, by type (from aggrevated assault to murder to burglary) and time on a Virtual Earth map. Fortunately, I live nowhere near Oakland, but if I...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-25-2007
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
Irrelevant Programming Languages (Or, Lingo Not to Learn)

Mike Hendrickson has been analyzing some of Q1 2007 computer book sales data , where he's called out languages you'd be best served avoiding if you are young programmer... "The following languages all sold between 1 and 99 units in Q1 '07. These are what I am considering the irrelevant programming languages...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-20-2007
A "one-third probability"

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as seeing a “one-third probability” of recession in the United States this year, according to an interview with Bloomberg. I'd say he has a 33% probability of being right.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2007
Online, Video-based Technical Support Networks (on YouTube)

Chris Pirillo has a very interesting experiment going on YouTube. In a series of videos called Help! ( here's the latest ), he's recording answers technical / PC troubleshooting on his webcam and then uploading those recordings on to YouTube. In the videos he is recording (no music, nothing fancy...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-21-2007
Q406 computer books sales

Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends. Here the highlights for me...The following...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2007

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