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August 4, 2008 at 9:41 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line ·Tagged David Recordon, Open Web Foundation, OpenWebFoundation, OSCON, OWF, Scott Kveton
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 organization’s purpose, goals and near term objectives.
33:13, 15.2 MB
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July 20, 2008 at 8:24 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, SaaS, The Bungee Line ·Tagged API, attask, Google, PaaS, SaaS, webservices
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
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June 20, 2008 at 9:38 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, The Bungee Line
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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 delegates all operations over web-service calls to the API. In other words, web-dev geeks like us can safely customize or extend the UI without risk of interfering with Deki’s business logic, such as page permissions or revisions. Coooool! Oh, and did we mention that it’s Free Software?
44:18, 20.3 MB
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April 14, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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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March 14, 2008 at 7:00 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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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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January 29, 2008 at 6:41 pm · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line ·Tagged HCI, joshuaporter, Podcast, socialdesign, UX
Overview
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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January 15, 2008 at 5:32 pm · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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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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December 13, 2007 at 2:26 pm · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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 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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November 16, 2007 at 6:20 pm · Filed under BCDN Audio, BCDN Updates, Blog, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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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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November 16, 2007 at 10:11 am · Filed under Blog, Feature Interviews, Podcast, The Bungee Line
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 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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