Reactions to story from Alex Barnett blog

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  A day of Bungee (Moving RIA development to the web)

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  326 days ago in The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs · Authority: 15

  I'm an advisor to Bungee Labs and am spending the day with the company (along with other advisors from Sun, Amazon, etc.). I'm not a developer myself, and so focus more on the community-building activities of the company, but they mentioned an incident at the eBay Developers Conference that I found fascinating. eBay developed a new eBay Shopping Web Services WSDL. They stopped by the Bungee Labs booth and asked what the company could do with it. By dragging and dropping components and objects, [Bungee] had a simple application running in minutes. The application had an input field to specify a search query. When you clicked the search button, the query results (item title, gallery URL, View Item URL, etc.) were displayed on the form. Start to finish, this all took less than 20 minutes. Not bad for working with a new API. And, as [Bungee] pointed out, we never left the web browser! Now, obviously, I'm somewhat biased on this. I think it's very cool. It allows you to build a highly connected rich Internet application in minutes. It's also because of all the open source licensing questions raised by such development (and, indeed, all SaaS). But forget my bias (Others with more expertise than I are also enthusiastic. Forget Bungee. Think about this: Applications are moving to the web. Now, the development environment is also moving there which, to me, makes sense. Build where you live. Always on. Even more interesting, watch how open source is moving with this trend. Adobe open sources Flex. Microsoft open sources parts of Silverlight. The tools to build the rich web are moving open source. Bungee is taking this a step further by applying these same offline rules to online development, and I'm positive that others will follow suit. It will be fascinating to watch the open source world evolve to abide by the same 21st Century development and deployment rules that software is following. We need a new breed of open source attorney to help us grok this shift. Luis, when do you graduate again? :-)
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  OpenLearn - a social being

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  330 days ago in Open Air · Authority: 12

  Edit: I’ve taken snap shot off now, it’s way too annoying. I’ve returned from leave in Portugal having endured almost an entire week of rain. Apparently I am not due a refund for this, and am not able to take legal action against the country (anymore than I am able to sue Erik Westermann for failing to teach me XML in a weekend). Anyway, something that always brightens my mood are interesting new or updated web services and fortunately I received a couple of these last week. First is an invitation to beta test Bungee Connect. I can’t really say an awful lot about it at the moment as I’ve only had time to set up an account and take a quick look at the interface - everything I’ve read about it has bee very positive though, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck in. Second is an update to Snap Shots. I’ve been aware of it for a while (i think Patrick McAndrew uses it on his blog) but the new RSS and social networking features are what’s encouraged me to get it installed here. Lets see if I can demonstrate how this leaves me completely stumped works perfectly. RSS - I should be able to add a link to Ouseful Info and the snap shot should show the rss feeds from the site. I should also be able to link to a permalink and the snap shot show the details. Social Networking - I think this is only working for MySpace at the moment, but again, a link to the OpenLearn Myspace page should show up our avatar, details etc. I suppose this is interesting to me partly because of the OpenLearn social Networking page and multimedia page that have gone up. We’re trying to get to grips with those small communities external to the OpenLearn site (I know they’re there because I read their blog posts!) and encourage them to let us know what they’re up to. In return we’ll link to them from the networks page and put them in contact with other bloggers using / discussing similar topics and issues. The Frappr map is there to give the page a feeling of `presence’ (dont forget to add your name and mugshot), and I guess we could use snap shots to do the same for users’ blogs and social networks. That’s if it work of course… Edit: Well you can probably see that this sort of works. For some reason it’s refusing to shows Tony’s RSS feeds. it seems to work with Engadget. I think it’s not recognising the address I’ve set as the index page.
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  Congrats to Bungee Labs on Opening Day for Bungee Connect

  http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=853
  346 days ago in Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer · Authority: 19

  I just caught that Bungee Labs is starting to let developers into their Bungee Connect product. Alex Barnett has a pretty good roundup (and a sweet picture to boot). I talked about Bungee Labs after I saw it at Web 2.0 Expo. It’s far and away one of the best Ajax applications I’ve ever seen. It has all the good looks of a Flash application and if the demos are half as good as the real thing, a ton of power under the hood. When I can point to Ajax applications that look great and have a good user experience, I’m happy because THIS is what people should mean when they say Ajax is a Rich Internet Application technology. This is one of those applications, so if you’re a developer, sign up for the beta and check it out. Congratulations guys. Technorati Tags: Bungee Labs, Bungee Connect, Ajax, Rich Internet Applications
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  Congrats to Bungee Labs on Opening Day for Bungee Connect

  http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=853
  346 days ago in Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer · Authority: 346

  I just caught that Bungee Labs is starting to let developers into their Bungee Connect product. Alex Barnett has a pretty good roundup (and a sweet picture to boot). I talked about Bungee Labs after I saw it at Web 2.0 Expo. It’s far and away one of the best Ajax applications I’ve ever seen. It has all the good looks of a Flash application and if the demos are half as good as the real thing, a ton of power under the hood. When I can point to Ajax applications that look great and have a good user experience, I’m happy because THIS is what people should mean when they say Ajax is a Rich Internet Application technology. This is one of those applications, so if you’re a developer, sign up for the beta and check it out. Congratulations guys. Technorati Tags: Bungee Labs, Bungee Connect, Ajax, Rich Internet Applications
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  Bungee Connect - Beta Opening Day - Alex Barnett blog

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  346 days ago in Binary Digest Link Blog · Authority: 2

  # Bungee Connect - Beta Opening Day - Alex Barnett blog Last night the Bungee Labs team invited the first group of developers to Bungee Connect, officially opening up the early access beta program. The initial group of early access customers is small, but we intend to ramp up quickly as we carefully monitor the system for performance and scaling, adding groups of 50 until all registered beta developers get their invites (we currently have around two thousand early access sign-ups ready to get their invites). The adjective "exciting" tends to be overused (I'm guilty of that), but it really was an "exciting" moment to send our first set of access invites last night and move on to the next phase of Bungee Connect's evolution. The pic below shows the moment we (Ted in fact) hit send on the first set of invites to our beta customers from Lyle's hotel room in Sunnyvale and doing so (as Ted says) with high fives and sighs of relief mixed with no small amount of anticipation in the hotel room and back at the ranch. From left to right: Alex "me" Barnett, Ted "not-that-reverend" Haeger, Lyle "on-the-ball" Ball and Brad "we-need-hints" Hintze. Now we've got Bungee Connect to this point, it's time to forge ahead with supporting the beta developers, responding to and collating feedback, work through the engineering and usability improvements, fixing bugs and known issues, and advance the user education content and experience so developers can get productive as quickly as possible. We have a lot of work ahead of us before we get to GA, but it's great to hit this milestone for the whole team - very energizing.
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  Frank Bungee Connect Officially Launches

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  346 days ago in O'Reilly XML Blog · Authority: 226

  Congratulations to Alex (Barnett), Ted (Haeger), Lyle (Ball), Brad (Hintze), and *ALL* the folks who brought together the official launch of the Bungee Connect beta yesterday! Bungee Connect - Beta Opening Day - Alex Barnett blog Last night the Bungee Labs team invited the first group of developers to Bungee Connect, officially opening up the early access beta program. The initial group of early access customers is small, but we intend to ramp up quickly as we carefully monitor the system for performance and scaling, adding groups of 50 until all registered beta developers get their invites (we currently have around two thousand early access sign-ups ready to get their invites). What excites me the most about all of this is the fact that Bungee Labs has not only developed the next generation “killer app” web services-focused browser-based client/server dev tool (wow, < that’s a mouthful!), but they have pioneered a new and innovative way for web developers like you and me to develop these apps to then deploy them to the masses w/o concern about what to do if that same app becomes the “next big thing” on the Internet. In other words, Bungee Labs via Bungee Connect is doing the same thing for web-based application development and deployment that Amazon has done with S3/EC2 for storing and serving up content. Like I mentioned before: Things are about to get interesting. As per the end of the Alex Barnett’s same linked post from above, You can sign up for Bungee Connect early access beta through Bungee Labs site. Apparently they are pushing things out in “groups of 50 until all registered beta developers get their invites”, such that they can properly monitor the stress load on the system, and adapt accordingly. Smart move. Of course, there are already ~2000 developers signed up for the early access beta, so if you haven’t already, now might be a good time to take up Alex on his invitation from above. From a personal level, I would *highly* recommend that you do just that. This is *KILLER* stuff!

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