F.C.C.’s Google Case Leaves Unanswered Questions | NYTimes.com
5 weeks ago by blech
The FCC has issued an interim report on Google's wifi data capture as part of the Street View project. There's some good stuff in here about the different reactions of the US regulators and various European bodies (including, inevitably, a German prosecutor).
google
google/streetview
data
wifi
surveillance
privacy
germany
fcc
5 weeks ago by blech
Instagram's Buyout: No Bubble to See Here | Wired.com
6 weeks ago by blech
Andy Baio: "If we look strictly at the acquisition cost per user, Facebook got a relative deal with the Instagram purchase, paying roughly $28 for each of Instagram’s 35 million users. (The median cost across all the acquisitions is about $92 per user.)" "But if you look at the payout per employee, Instagram is completely off the charts."
andybaio
wired
instagram
facebook
youtube
google
acquisition
finance
money
via:@hitherto
6 weeks ago by blech
Google Glasses and the Myth of Augmented Reality | The Atlantic
7 weeks ago by blech
Navneet Alang: "for all the legitimately utopian hope of Project Glass, it is also a reminder of why the centralization of technology among a few key, large players is reason for pause. The glasses take those tired, pedantic debates over "open versus closed" operating systems and interfaces and puts them into sharper focus. This is about what kind of world we want to see."
google
google/projectglass
cyborg
augmentation
augmentedreality
theatlantic
from instapaper
7 weeks ago by blech
Hacking Scarlett Johansson using Google and gumption | Ars Technica
7 weeks ago by blech
"Reaching from a Florida computer into the most private documents of Hollywood celebrities took no organized blackmail ring, no special tools, and no special software. It required merely a search engine, an Internet connection, and the willingness to be deeply creepy."
arstechnica
hacking
socialengineering
google
email
security
from instapaper
7 weeks ago by blech
DayNotes - Mon 12th Sept, 2011 | Rev Dan Catt's Blog
september 2011 by blech
Dan on the GAE changes. "I am now thinking in terms of running my code on x number of servers, which is totally what I didn’t want to be thinking about."
google
appengine
cloud
sysadmin
via:straup
from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson | Edge
february 2011 by blech
"By breaking the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, von Neumann unleashed the power of the stored-program computer, and our universe would never be the same." George Dyson's short article for Edge may act as a sketch for his forthcoming book of the same name.
article
google
vonnuemann
alanturing
computing
history
culture
2005
from delicious
february 2011 by blech
A little help with spherical geometry | Google Geo Developers Blog:
january 2011 by blech
"The first library that we are launching is the geometry library. The geometry library provides a set of utility functions for performing distance, heading, and area calculations in a spherical geometry, such as on the surface of the Earth, and also provides functions for handling encoded polylines."
google
google/maps
api
geometry
distance
geography
via:iamdanw
from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Damon Zucconi, 2010 | Fata Morgana
december 2010 by blech
A very simple, but also very effective, hack using the Google Maps v3 styling options.
maps
google
art
labels
google/maps
styling
from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The Best Google Maps of 2010 | Google Maps Mania
december 2010 by blech
"The BBC Dimensions site is probably my favourite Google Maps project of the year." Crumbs.
google
maps
cartography
berg
from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The Channel API (Python) | Google App Engine
december 2010 by blech
New in 1.4.0: "The Channel API creates a persistent connection between your application and Google servers, allowing your application to send messages to JavaScript clients in real time without the use of polling. This is useful for applications that are designed to update the user about new information immediately or where user input is immediately broadcast to other users."
google
appengine
javascript
push
via:straup
from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The government shouldn't hang on Google | guardian.co.uk
november 2010 by blech
Charles Arthur: "Recent statements from Cameron and Willetts on copyright and patents show the dangers of being in thrall to IT giants" Also: "[Startups] prefer real streets in real cities, where there's a bagel shop down the road, three other startups within five minutes' walk who they can meet for a chat, and a choice of pubs and coffee houses in which to have ad-hoc meetings."
london
technology
startups
eastlondon
google
government
copyright
guardian
from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Olympic Park to rival Silicon Valley in David Cameron's vision for east London | UK news | The Guardian
november 2010 by blech
"David Cameron will today set out a vision of London's East End becoming a hi-tech rival to Silicon Valley on the US west coast, disclosing Google, Facebook and a host of cutting-edge firms have committed to invest in the Olympic Park." "Cameron will also disclose that he will look at a potentially far-reaching change to intellectual property rights after Google told him UK laws are far more restrictive than the US." Well.
london
internet
google
facebook
stratford
siliconvalley
siliconleavalley?
davidcameron
copyright
from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3 | 41Latitude
october 2010 by blech
"Perhaps the best feature of Google Maps API V3 is that you can now remove select map elements. Why is this API V3’s best feature, you ask? Well, because it allows you to remove map elements that are not particularly relevant to your mashup. " This looks like a very useful guide, with examples.
google/maps
maps
design
google
json
development
api
from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Where Have I Been? | Official Google Mobile Blog
may 2010 by blech
If I actually *used* Latitude, this might be useful. As it is, I'd be better pulling locations out of Twitter and Foursquare. Mind you, the moon banner is a bit Jones/Dopplr-y, although not as nice (obviously).
google
location
history
dopplr
foursquare
twitter
personalinformatics
via:preoccupations
from delicious
may 2010 by blech
SQLite datastore stub for the Python GAE SDK | Nick's Blog
march 2010 by blech
"The Python SDK's datastore implementation operates by storing the entire contents of your development datastore in memory." "The new local datastore implementation fixes both these issues by rewriting the datastore stub to use SQLite as a backend." Try the beta now. (docent's memory usage when running a local copy of the full DB was... painful.)
google
appengine
sqlite
database
march 2010 by blech
SDK 1.3.1: Major Datastore Improvements | App Engine Blog
february 2010 by blech
New in Google App Engine: "Datastore Query Cursors / No more 1000 result limit / Reduced error rate with Automatic Datastore Retries / AppStats RPC instrumentation library." Good stuff. Should let me fix some things with docent too...
google
appengine
python
datastore
api
statistics
via:jerakeen
via:straup
february 2010 by blech
Bing tries to sign up newspapers: Web-wide war | The Economist
december 2009 by blech
"A handful of well-funded and powerful platforms, locked in heated competition, could be better for consumers and generate more innovation than Mr O’Reilly’s vision of an internet made of many 'small pieces loosely joined'." Really?
economist
internet
google
bing
search
news
december 2009 by blech
Testers needed for native OAuth | Google Groups
november 2009 by blech
Google App Engine gets prototype OAuth support. One to look at, I suspect.
google
appengine
oauth
python
todo/gone
via:jerakeen
november 2009 by blech
Apple Answers the FCC's Questions | Apple
august 2009 by blech
"We are pleased to respond to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s inquiry dated July 31, 2009, requesting information regarding Apple’s App Store and its application approval process." The Mac pundits will be digesting this all weekend. Most interesting: why Google Voice wasn't approved, the admission of an explicit AT&T veto on VOIP (and an implicit one for TV), and the stats on App Store personnel and process.
apple
google
iphone
appstore
software
pressrelease
via:daringfireball
august 2009 by blech
Launched: Google Apps Script | Official Google Enterprise Blog
august 2009 by blech
"we're excited to launch Google Apps Script to all Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers today" (on Wednesday 19th).
google
google/apps
scripting
javascript
saas
via:yoz
august 2009 by blech
Google App Scripts | Google
august 2009 by blech
"Welcome to Google Apps Script: an easy way to automate simple tasks across Google Products." "use standard JavaScript; use Google's online Web Script Editor or your favorite Desktop development tool; Execution and hosting of scripts on the Google cloud" Interesting. (Confusing naming, perhaps?)
google
google/apps
scripting
javascript
office
saas
via:yoz
august 2009 by blech
IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View | Art Fag City
august 2009 by blech
Treating Google Street View imagery as street photography, with some quite good results.
google
google/maps
google/streetview
art
photography
jonrafman
via:ldanderson
august 2009 by blech
Alpha & hubristic user interfaces | Unqualified Reservations
july 2009 by blech
This is very funny. I could pull out huge chunks of it as quotes, but I don't think I could stay in the 1000 character limit, and anyway, the whole thing - on Wolfram Alpha, interfaces, usability, AI, compsci, and MySpace - is worth reading.
google
wolframalpha
usability
interface
ai
via:tomc
via:ssp
july 2009 by blech
django-gae2django | code.google.com
march 2009 by blech
"gae2django is a Django helper application that provides an implementation of Google's App Engine API based on pure Django. The helper makes it easier to re-use applications originally designed for Google's App Engine environment in a Django environment." Handy for avoiding lockin (which seems to be attracting folk to Heroku).
python
google
appengine
code
django
portability
paas
via:jerakeen
via:simonwillison
march 2009 by blech
Grow your app beyond free quotas | Google App Engine Blog
february 2009 by blech
"You can now set a daily budget for your app that represents the maximum amount you're willing to pay for computing resources each day." "In 90 days we will be reducing the free quota resources. We believe these new levels will continue to support a reasonably efficient application serving around 5 million page views per month, completely free." Win some, lose some...
google
appengine
pricing
quota
via:jerakeen
february 2009 by blech
Satellite Crash Animation | Google Earth Blog
february 2009 by blech
"Thanks to the KML development efforts of James Stafford, you can use Google Earth's time animation feature to see the orbits of the two satellites from the six minutes before the impact until they meet. The file also includes one hour's worth of their orbital paths for some perspective."
google
google/earth
visualisation
space
satellite
collision
via:straup
february 2009 by blech
"High CPU" is no more | Google App Engine Blog
february 2009 by blech
'No more "High CPU Requests"! App Engine Apps were once allowed no more than 2 CPU-intensive requests per minute. We've made some adjustments to the way we handle requests, and have eliminated this limitation altogether.' More on the GAE-becoming-production-ready front, then.
google
appengine
cpu
quota
via:jerakeen
february 2009 by blech
Apple, Google, and Palm | Daring Fireball
february 2009 by blech
"in addition to multi-touch [on the G1], the other feature that Apple objected to was using a standard headphone jack. Apple apparently owns a patent on controlling software using buttons connected by a standard 3.5mm headphone jack (at least for music and video playback controls)" If true, this might be the most annoying patent in a long while.
apple
google
palm
mobile
patent
headphone
standards
february 2009 by blech
A roadmap update! | Google App Engine Blog
february 2009 by blech
Background tasks and task queues, XMPP and receiving email, oh my! Handy stuff, when it shows up (possibly for Google IO in May?)
google
appengine
queue
cron
email
xmpp
development
february 2009 by blech
Google App Engine Launcher Options | Don Park’s Daily Habit
february 2009 by blech
How to get dev-appserver to bind to a specific interface, rather than 127.0.0.1, which can be handy if you want to do local testing (the author wants it for IE debugging).
google
appengine
documentation
network
debugging
via:ade
february 2009 by blech
Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together | Google Data APIs
january 2009 by blech
'Google now supports the "Hybrid Protocol", combining OpenID federated login together with OAuth access authorization.' Looks like this might end up with a usable, open competitor to Facebook Connect.
google
oauth
openid
authentication
identity
authorisation
data
api
security
january 2009 by blech
Handy data resources about the United States | Guardian
january 2009 by blech
Fantastic- the stuff that was available at the Guardian hack day is now more generally out there.
guardian
google
spreadsheet
data
politics
statistics
via:hublicious
january 2009 by blech
New ways to get around with transit | Google LatLong
january 2009 by blech
An overlaid tube map for London (and other transit options elsewhere) is now available on Google Maps.
map
travel
transport
google
google/maps
london
via:magnetbox
january 2009 by blech
Outputting PDFs with Google App Engine | Most recent call
january 2009 by blech
How to use the ReportLab PDF generation library with Google App Engine. Summary: it works out of the box, except it tries to make a file, so stop it doing that and you're good to go.
google
appengine
python
pdf
programming
january 2009 by blech
Free download from Google | Picasa for Mac
january 2009 by blech
Hm. I really don't like Google's UI style and I found Picasa on the PC quite Fisher Price, but the face tagging and geotagging might make both iPhoto and Flickr a bit nervous of the newcomer. (Did anyone else notice the slightly snide comments in the video about referencing files?)
photography
google
software
macosx
picasa
january 2009 by blech
App Engine conclusions | Jonathan Ellis
january 2009 by blech
This seems to be a consistent source of App Engine criticism; basically, "I don't see the point of giving up my RDBMS just for (alleged) scalability". The comments do a good job of pointing out that, actually, RDBMSes just leave you with the pain of partitioning later. Mind you, my perspective's a bit odd, given how rarely I use persistent local data. (He's right about background tasks though.)
google
appengine
scaling
database
january 2009 by blech
System Status, Quota Details, and a Billing Preview | GAE Blog
december 2008 by blech
I think I should be paying more attention to the GAE blog, if I'm missing interesting/important things like this: "System Status Site that monitors the latency and uptime ... new Quota Details Dashboard ... [and] a sneak peak at our upcoming billing feature" (Yes, I've subscribed now.)
google
appengine
cloud
paas
pricing
status
dashboard
december 2008 by blech
2009 Web Predictions | ReadWriteWeb
december 2008 by blech
A consensus on Facebook Connect becoming de-facto single sign on everywhere (albeit with reservations, and one vote for Google instead), with a few people talking about lifestreaming (and more importantly dealing with the firehose, so filtering/recommendation). Worth a scan through, although it does peter out towards the end.
web
development
facebook
facebookconnect
openid
google
twitter
aggregation
lifestream
comment
december 2008 by blech
Getting a visitor's location (city) | HubLog
december 2008 by blech
When did this get so easy?
location
google
maxmind
javascript
geo
web
development
december 2008 by blech
On App Engine | paulhammond.org
december 2008 by blech
This pretty much mirrors my experience with App Engine; well documented, and trivially easy to deploy to. I've not used custom domains, so I've not run into the problems Paul found, but even so, he concludes, "App Engine is pretty much perfect for apps like this, and I can see me using it a lot more in the future..."
google
appengine
python
development
documentation
paulhammond
december 2008 by blech
Running App Engine Applications on Django | App Engine
november 2008 by blech
Yet another get-out route for GAE. Not for me, at the moment, because I'm not using Django, but still, probably worth a bookmark and a read.
google
python
appengine
django
porting
portability
november 2008 by blech
Feed me! Alerts not just for email | Google Blog
november 2008 by blech
"This week, our Trondheim-based Google Alerts team launched support for feeds, a highly requested feature you can use to receive alerts via the feed reader of your choice."
personalnewspaper
google
google/news
news
alerts
feeds
november 2008 by blech
K-9 - An android mutt | Jesse
october 2008 by blech
"I set up a google code project, checked in the 'Email' app's original source code and started in with a regex-shaped chainsaw. When I was done K-9 was born." Yes, a fork of the original Android email app, on their app store. I shouldn't need to mention MailWrangler now, right?
android
google
mobile
email
software
opensource
october 2008 by blech
Parsing Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets | OUseful.Info
october 2008 by blech
Oh my. This is... really rather good. As someone else said, "the semantic web is here".
google
google/spreadsheet
wikipedia
programming
semanticweb
via:infovore
via:nedrichards
october 2008 by blech
app-engine-patch | Google Code
october 2008 by blech
Apparently the state of the art in Django-on-App Engine packages (as opposed to, say, google-app-engine-django or - horrors - following the article on the App Engine site itself).
python
django
google
appengine
framework
development
todo
october 2008 by blech
Front Page | App Store
september 2008 by blech
A Google App Engine-hosted web-based front end to the App Store, which used to be accessible only though iTunes - and therefore not bookmarkable, etc, etc. There's no details of who's behind it, which is perhaps understandable, but also a shame.
apple
iphone
appstore
web
google
appengine
python
september 2008 by blech
Production Quality Applications on GAE | Google I/O
september 2008 by blech
Video and slides from a talk a while ago on how to build good apps on Google App Engine. Covers profiling and has a version of the "email on error" recipe. (I've read the slides but not watched it.)
google
appengine
presentation
towatch
video
python
testing
september 2008 by blech
Email upon exception with throttling | App Engine Recipe
september 2008 by blech
Once I figure out how to get email working (pesky 'has to be an admin' nonsense) I might add this. Mind you, I already get quite good visibility on errors. There's more useful stuff on the site, too.
google
appengine
python
development
email
september 2008 by blech
Decorator to get/set from memcache | App Engine Recipe
september 2008 by blech
Does what it says in the title. I'm not sure I'll use exactly this, mind.
google
appengine
python
memcached
development
via:ade
september 2008 by blech
Gearshift (Migrations for Gears) | Code by Patrick Quinn-Graham
september 2008 by blech
Does what it says in the title, giving you a mechanism for migrating Gears data from one schema to another.
google
google/gears
database
migration
javascript
september 2008 by blech
Confirmed: Chrome Is Coming To Android | ReadWriteWeb
september 2008 by blech
The main article seems to me to be stating the blindingly obvious, but the second comment has an interesting theory: that the V8 JavaScript engine will be made available to App Engine apps. A hosted server-side JS dev environment. Hmmm.
google
google/chrome
v8
zimki
via:mattedgar
september 2008 by blech
We haven’t named the conference “Over Quota” | Aral Balkan
september 2008 by blech
"The Google App Engine quota system is fundamentally broken. You cannot have a cloud solution that 'intelligently' takes sites down, essentially making every site running on it into a Twitter at the height of its troubles" "This isn't Google Toy Engine, it's Google App Engine"
google
appengine
cloud
hosting
via:gnat
september 2008 by blech
A fresh take on the browser | Official Google Blog
september 2008 by blech
Official word on Chrome. "We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries." - localisation? "Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows" ... "hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too".
google
google/chrome
browser
windows
september 2008 by blech
Google Chrome | Google Book Search
september 2008 by blech
The Google Chrome comic that kicked it all off, available on Google Book Search (and as a downloadable PDF).
google
google/chrome
comic
pdf
design
browser
september 2008 by blech
Google Chrome Process Manager | John Resig
september 2008 by blech
"If this is true and there's a process manager which allows you to see how many resources are being consumed by a particular browser tab (including plugins!) this will be a 100% killer browser feature." Resig goes on to consider the implications for web developers.
google
google/chrome
browser
javascript
development
september 2008 by blech
The Google Browser | The Truth about Mozilla
september 2008 by blech
An interesting post from back in February about Firefox developers hired into Google suddenly going dark. Now it looks like this can be confirmed as them moving to Chrome-on-Webkit. (Presumably it was going to originally be Chrome-on-Gecko.)
google
google/chrome
mozilla
firefox
software
development
people
browser
via:bopuc
september 2008 by blech
comic book - Page 12 | Google on Google Chrome
september 2008 by blech
The comic book that Google is apparently using to introduce its browser (or is it a runtime environment?) spends a couple of pages, starting here, talking about why they chose WebKit. The whole thing seems to be worth reading, especially the bits about pervasive multithreading early on.
google
google/chrome
browser
web
webkit
development
comic
september 2008 by blech
Home | Google App Engine Cookbook
august 2008 by blech
A collection of tips for various things to do with Google App Engine, which is kind of handy.
google
appengine
python
django
development
tips
via:joshua
august 2008 by blech
London from the Air | Google Maps
august 2008 by blech
Everyone is, not without reason, very excited by the photos of London from the Air that Justin Hawke took, featured yesterday on boston.com's The Big Picture. I thought it would be nice to show where they all were, so here's a quick map. (Yes, I do evil client image sizing.)
london
photography
map
google
bigpicture
august 2008 by blech
"Online maps 'wiping out history'" | jerakeen.org
august 2008 by blech
Tom Insam runs with my commentary (why don't the OS get their data onto the Google interface?) and highlights the Google response: the data's there, it's just not displayed. Unfortunately, as he also notes, there's not much of a good UI to display it in the end either.
bbc
news
maps
geography
google
uk
comment
ordnancesurvey
geowanking
jerakeen
tominsam
august 2008 by blech
Online maps 'wiping out history' | BBC News
august 2008 by blech
The oft-quoted portion seems to be "Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash". Yes, but...
bbc
news
maps
geography
google
uk
comment
ordnancesurvey
geowanking
via:everyone
august 2008 by blech
Create Your Own Feed Maps | Google Maps Mania
august 2008 by blech
"Feed Maps is a new API from Map Channels that lets users create Google Maps mash-ups from a number of different data sources." Aaron implies this might be useful with Flickr feeds. Hm.
google
maps
geowanking
feeds
via:straup
via:jerakeen
august 2008 by blech
home | appengine-utilities
august 2008 by blech
"The appengine-utilities project is for people who have needs not supplied by the Google App Engine environment by default. It includes such features as sessions for preserving data across multiple page views" So far, fairly useful.
google
appengine
python
utilities
development
august 2008 by blech
Google Mac Developer Playground | Google Code
august 2008 by blech
"Many developers at Google work on interesting open-source projects, some full time, some in their 20% time. This page is a collection of several such Mac-related projects."
google
google/code
macosx
applications
utlitities
august 2008 by blech
appmenuboy | Google Code
august 2008 by blech
"AppMenuBoy is a small Cocoa application that creates a hierarchical menu, in the dock, and when it is the frontmost app, in the menu bar, of your apps" A Google Mac playground app.
macosx
applications
utilities
google
google/code
august 2008 by blech
Google App Engine With Amazon Web Services | Idle Words
august 2008 by blech
Background processing requirement on a GAE project? This will help you use S3+SQS to handle it. (Hmm, too many acronyms there perhaps.)
google
appengine
python
s3
queue
messaging
august 2008 by blech
IMG·2·JSON — An image meta–data to JSON web application
august 2008 by blech
"IMG·2·JSON is a simple Google App Engine python application which extracts metadata from images and returns the results as a JSON string. " Could be handy, perhaps. Impressive use of GAE too.
photography
exif
google
appengine
json
python
via:straup
august 2008 by blech
Pound the pavement | Google LatLong
july 2008 by blech
"Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we'll try to find you a route that ... uses pedestrian pathways when we know about them" They failed my Barbican highwalks test, but hopefully the data will come in time.
google
google/maps
maps
navigation
walking
via:cityofsound
july 2008 by blech
Google Mobile App for iPhone | YouTube
july 2008 by blech
Yet another web site wrapped in an iPhone application. Oddly, it's not available in the UK, despite being presented on the UK YouTube site by a British person.
apple
iphone
google
application
mobile
blogcomment
july 2008 by blech
Newspapers Don’t Understand The Web | Publishing 2.0
june 2008 by blech
"Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of blogs." One reader's frustrations trying to get local news out of a world-focussed US newspaper site.
news
newspaper
web
weather
location
business
google
via:pauldwaite
june 2008 by blech
Do What You’re Great At | Davenetics*
june 2008 by blech
"here’s a whacky idea my Yahoo friends. Why not define yourself by your news services and the other stuff where you destroy the competition?" He's not the first person to say this, but concentrating on news not the Flickr/delicious axis is new.
yahoo
google
news
business
via:daringfireball
june 2008 by blech
AJAX Libraries API | Google Code
may 2008 by blech
Why bother with all that pesky JavaScript library hosting yourself? Now you can call to Google and have them handle it. Complete with versioning, so you can make sure nothing changes under you.
google
javascript
jquery
ajax
library
hosting
web
development
may 2008 by blech
Twitter Charts | Xefer
may 2008 by blech
Really nice Twitter visualisation using Google Charts, Yahoo Pipes and so on. Only let down, as so many Twitter tools are, by its inability to look at private timelines (bring on the OAuth already).
twitter
charts
pipes
javascript
google
google/charts
visualisation
via:psd
may 2008 by blech
Google Transit Gets Smarter | Autopia from Wired.com
april 2008 by blech
So US-centric it hurts. Boggle at "Google Transit may well become the world's best way to run a railroad" (no, the best way to do that is good frequency and reliability) and the fact this is on their car blog, then point out TfL doing this better, sooner.
wired
transport
information
google
us
via:cityofsound
april 2008 by blech
jaiku | dw.blah
april 2008 by blech
"jaiku is now being run as a '20%' project by the jaiku staff who joined google when they were bought out." I can't read the original post, but somehow this has the ring of truth. Meanwhile, people discuss Friendfeed as a post-Twitter site. Sigh.
jaiku
google
twitter
friendfeed
aggregation
via:antimega
april 2008 by blech
City Distances | Bestiario
april 2008 by blech
Shows the links between cities as indexed by Google. Certainly very nice to look at and play with.
google
cities
visualisation
maps
interface
via:tomc
april 2008 by blech
Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 | Waxy.org
april 2008 by blech
"AppDrop is simply a remote installation of the App Engine SDK, with the user authentication and identification modified to use a local silo instead of Google Accounts" On github. So much for lockin?
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april 2008 by blech
Amazon vs Google | Bits or pieces?
april 2008 by blech
I've been wondering if Simon Wardley would comment on App Engine, and he does. His comments on the SDK match what Tom and I have said: you can deploy to your own colo from the SDK. There's your exit strategy. (You do lose single sign on.)
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april 2008 by blech
app engines | tecznotes
april 2008 by blech
"Amazon's services were like a breath of fresh air while so far, Google's has filled me a dread I dare not name." Michal Migurski compares the tabula rasa of EWS with Google's App Engine. Interesting.
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