Alex Barnett blog

The Third Order of Order

I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it

Posted: May. 9, 2008 07:45 AM

Classic Raymond Chen

Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".

Posted: May. 7, 2008 11:44 AM

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 E

Posted: May. 3, 2008 12:51 PM

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 Twitters Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. B

Posted: May. 1, 2008 07:08 AM

The Efficiency of (the) American English Language

As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be a

Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 11:27 AM

So...what?

About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: "So, h

Posted: Apr. 27, 2008 11:47 AM

Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning

Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using Amazons Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) i

Posted: Apr. 23, 2008 08:46 AM

So what is this Platform as a Service thing?

The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 10:54 AM

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 stude

Posted: Mar. 28, 2008 07:54 AM

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 d

Posted: Mar. 6, 2008 12:37 AM

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	Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System By James Hamilton anonymous coward wrote: For those wondering that's a system76 computer in the picture.
	Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Google News Desk wrote: Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal be...
	Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight By Judah Phillips Georges wrote: Interresting article. Where do you enable "events" in Google Analytics? http://code.go ogle.com/apis/analytics/d ocs/eventTrackerOverview. html says it's only available to Beta participants.
	ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing By Alex Fletcher Bobbi wrote: I found FAQ on this topic at the Servicemix web site to be pretty accurant about the differences between them (http://servicemix.apache .org/how-does-servicemix- compare-to-synapse.html). Only thing is Syanpse developers call it a ESB, I'm not sure if it really is (sq...
	DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! By Kevin Hoffman DreamSpark News Desk wrote: It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers.