Bungee Connect Developer Network

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” segment.
25:13, 11.6 MB

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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..
35:05, 16.1 MB

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Joshua Porter is a usability consultant, web designer, researcher and blogger specializing in the art of social design for the web whose experience includes five years at world-renowned User Interface Engineering. 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 (details below).
47:55, 21.9 MB

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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 about eBay’s position Oauth and on open source.
42:14, 19.4 MB

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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 in his book.

Special thanks to avid Bungee Line listener John Oliva, who suggested that we interview Toby.
49:05, 20.3 MB

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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 how he went about bringing the application to life.
17:05, 7.8 MB

Video
This accompanying screencast takes you on a tour of the application, providing further detail of how it was constructed in Bungee Connect.
~8 minutes

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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 the end of this show, Ted and Alex speculate a bit about Android, Google’s open source mobile device platform, the Apache License, and whether Robert Love is involved. Please consider this as another demonstration of Ted’s idiocy, brought to you by the Bungee Line.
49:05, 22.5 MB

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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

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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

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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, “Take that, John Musser!” Jeff even name drops a book on our show. I wonder what site he expects us to link to on that?
32:17, 14.8 MB

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