Posted by Alin Irimie
on December 22, 2008
Yesterday, Dec 21st NPR’s “All things considered” Andrea Seabrook had a talk with security and technology experts about one of the mundane but hugely important decisions that must be made by the Obama transition team - how the White House computers should run. Looks like Google and Microsoft are already pushing the White House to use the new “cloud computing”. One of the conclusions was “the internet IS cloud computing”. Oh well …
Kevin Jackson, a security expert, talks a little bit about security in the cloud, saying that cloud computing can be actually safer, in many cases, than non-cloud environment.
Vint Cerf, the father of the internet, currently working for Google, has also had a word to say, he’s mentioning the collaborative advantage of using cloud computing. Continue reading…
Posted by Marcio Castilho
on December 11, 2008
Not too long ago Google had finally graduated the Google Suggestions as an auto-complete features when you start typing your query terms in the search text box. I really like this feature, but Google has introduced advertisement inside that auto-complete list, which I am not sure if I like it.
I personally find this a little bit too intrusive for my search experience. What do you guys think ?
Update: I have received some reports that not everyone has this feature enabled yet. I believe Google is deploying slowly to groups of people to test the new feature.
Posted by Alin Irimie
on December 09, 2008
Right when I was wondering how come we don’t hear anything from Google and App Engine, here comes the announcement. App Engine applications will be able to access enterprise data and services via the Force.com API.
I was talking in a previous post about new cloud mashups, and it looks like they are already here, in full force. With this new move, although not so obvious, Google is hiding behind the cloud, and I believe it really shows the long term strategy is taking: if you go to war with Microsoft and Amazon, let others fight for you!
The new Force.com for Google App Engine lets developers create applications that span both salesforce.com and Google’s cloud computing platforms, and take advantage of the key features of both.
So what is Force.com for Google App Engine?
A Python library that lets you access the Force.com Web services API from within Google App Engine applications. Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, the application can start to make callouts to the Force.com Web services API. Continue reading…
