The Bungee Line – Bungee Connect Developer Network

Overview The Open Web Foundation was announced at OSCON 2008. Created by and endorsed by numerous highly influential individuals and organizations, the Open Web Foundation has also been received with a fair amount of skepticism. We speak to Scott Kveton, one of the key people involved in the organization’s establishment to learn more about the […]

Overview Nate Bowler, CTO of @task, becomes our first in-studio guest on the Bungee Line. @task provides project management, Gantt chart, workflow, and time tracking software through both traditional host-your-own and Software-as-a-Service models. As with so many companies in the providing web-based software, they provide an API. 36:25, 16.7 MB Related Links Here are links […]

Overview MindTouch’s Steve Bjorg joins us to tell us all about their wiki platform called “Deki.” MindTouch is rapidly growing Deki’s install base, largely on its slick user interface. But there’s something hidden under the all the UI slickness: under the hood, Deki supports a comprehensive web API. In fact, the PHP user interface fully […]

Overview ProgrammableWeb’s John Musser returns to the Bungee Line to give us an update on the API action of early 2008. Alex and Ted apologize for the unfortunate audio treatment to the Bungee sound in the previous episode, promising “never again!” In related news, check out the new intro music for our “Cool Web Tips” […]

Overview There are few developer communities as large and distributed as that of Ubuntu, perhaps the most popular brand of GNU/Linux distributions available today. Jono Bacon is the first official community manager for Ubuntu. He joins to tell us what he has learned in his 18 months of working with this vast and disparate community.. […]

Joshua Porter is a web designer, researcher and blogger specializing in the art of social design for the web. Josh’s blog (Bokardo.com) is a must-read favorite for UI and web designers and is finishing up his first book, to be published in the next few weeks.

Overview As product manager for eBay Desktop, Alan Lewis relies on the same web APIs that eBay makes available to all developers. In this edition of the Bungee Line, Alan tells us about what the eBay Desktop is, how it came about, and various details about eBay’s developer program and web APIs. We ask Alan […]

Overview Since the publication of his O’Reilly book Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications, Toby Segaran has become well noted for his ability to explain easily-understandable algorithms for the kind of deeply complex problems involved in social applications. Toby joins Alex and Ted to discuss some of the high-level concepts that he tackles […]

Audio In April 2007, Bungee Labs engineer Josh Skillings built a demo application for Web 2.0 Expo using Rhapsody Web Services. In this BCDN Audio podcast, Josh tells Brad Hintze and Ted Haeger how he ended up tasked with a last-minute project to create a demo application before the public debut of Bungee Connect, and […]

Overview Jon Aizen joins Alex and Ted to explain how Dapper.net provides a no-fee tool for making almost any structured web site data accessible via a REST API. In a past life, Jon was involved in creating The Internet Archive. Jon also helps the Bungee Line introduce romantic intrigue into the podcast. Punditry Alert! At […]

Overview In part 2 of our interview with Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr, Alex and Ted ask Jeff about Flexible Payment Service, virtual user group meetings in Second Life, the Startup Project, and pry at Jeff’s views of possible futures of technologies that developers might anticipate. 21:41, 9.9 MB Leave us a comment about […]

Overview Three of the minds behind the OAuth initiative, Chris Messina, Larry Halff and Eran Hammer-Lahav, join us to tell us about this emerging “open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.” 54:32, 25 MB Leave us a comment about the show. (This means you.) […]

Overview Developer evangelist for Amazon Web Services, Jeff Barr tells Alex and Ted about how he became a native Amazonian, his recent visit to “The Business of API’s Conference,” and a bunch of stuff on Amazon Web Services, including: Mechanical Turk, EC2, and S3. Additionally, Jeff explains the newly announced S3 Service Level Agreement*, adding, […]

Overview Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! talks to Ted and Alex about Mash, Hadoop, Yahoo Developer Network, openness at Yahoo, Yahoo’s APIs, and various related topics. 32:21, 14.8 MB Please leave us a comment about this show. Related Links Here are links to some of the services mentioned in this episode. Jeremy’s blog (rss) “There is […]

Overview Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! talks to Ted and Alex about Zimbra, Yahoo Developer Network, openness at Yahoo, Yahoo’s APIs, and various related topics. 30:15, 14 MB Please leave us a comment about this show. Related Links Here are links to some of the services mentioned in this episode. Jeremy’s blog (rss) Yahoo Developer Network […]

Overview We launch The Bungee Line with an interview with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb. Your hosts, Alex Barnett and Ted Haeger also introduce you to the show. 33:09, 15.2 MB Please leave us a comment about this show. Related Links Here are links to some of the services mentioned in this episode. ProgrammableWeb Blog (rss) […]