Bungee, Line 2

Yesterday, we launched the second part of our Bungee Labs podcast, “The Bungee Line.” Implemented as a “BCDN Audio” subfeed peer to our Feature Interviews subfeed, the first edition brings in a Bungee Labs engineer named Josh Skillings to talk about the speed and ease with which he built one of our demo applications for the debut of Bungee Connect last April at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

We also published a screen cast video along with the audio interview. If you have been wondering what this Bungee Connect thing that I am doing is all about, check out the inaugural edition for BCDN Audio.

Oauth: Standardizing Authentication for API

The most recent edition of The Bungee Line features an interview on the coolness of Oauth, an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

We have seen a rather impressive number of downloads on this episode so far. If you develop to web APIs (or even if you are just casually interested in why, say, LinkedIn or Facebook apps ask for your Gmail username and password in order to access your contacts in Gmail) then you’ll want to check this one out.