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NYT: “Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing”

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Netflix, article, cloud computing on Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 1:55 am | Leave a Comment »

Informative article from the New York Times explaining in layperson’s terms cloud computing and how businesses are using it: Netflix transforming their business with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 3M sticking their toes in, with IBM’s Azure cloud.

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When the Web 2.0 “Cloud” Apps go dark: Pageflakes Flaky

Posted in 37signals, Enterprise 2.0, Pageflakes, Web 2.0, cloud computing, recession on Saturday, 31 January 2009, 11:29 am | Leave a Comment »

Ok, so my RSS reader is Pageflakes, an online “webtop” RSS reader. I’ve come to like the the way Pageflakes has all my RSS feeds (with graphics) physically laid out in tabbed pages. Until two days ago. When Pageflakes just died. Without any notification. Gives putting your valuable data (in this case several hundred URLs [...]

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Totally over-the-top foul-languaged but ringing-of-truth take on Microsoft’s Seinfeld ads

Posted in Microsoft, Web 2.0, cloud computing, cloud-centric computers on Sunday, 21 September 2008, 5:29 pm | 1 Comment »

I think this guy’s a little over-the-top (after all, it’s just an operating system) with his flowery and foul-mouthed analogies. But if you want to know how a large portion of the planet feels about Microsoft products, check out the venting by “Kirby” on comments on this page: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1251-i-liked-microsoft-better-when-they-were-assholes No dream team of well-loved pop [...]

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Great article on Google’s new Chrome Browser: Business Week

Posted in Chrome, Google Docs, Net-tops, Web 2.0, cloud computing, google, netbooks, online office apps on Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 3:50 pm | Leave a Comment »

BusinessWeek has an excellent (best I’ve read so far) on the significance of Google’s newly announced browser, Chrome. Key paragraph: Google Chrome has faster JavaScript VM, better memory management, better Windows UI rendering, faster text layout and rendering, and intelligent page navigation in comparison with other more widely adopted browsers. When combined with Google Gears [...]

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Time: Operating Systems Becoming “Irrelevant” to Anyone Under 21

Posted in Apple, Vista, Web 2.0, cloud computing, cloud-centric computers on Saturday, 23 August 2008, 10:04 am | 1 Comment »

So you’ve heard Seinfeld is plugging Microsoft Vista. Past-prime star for past-prime OS. But Time Magazine, in Seinfeld: The Right Man for Microsoft, writes that it doesn’t even matter cuz the cloud is coming and OSs are soon irrelevant: Still, online and elsewhere, the news was met with derision. Why, the armchair analysts wonder, would [...]

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“Cloud-centric Machines”: you don’t need powerful expensive computers to surf “the cloud”

Posted in Net-tops, Nicholas Carr, SaaS, Web 2.0, cloud computing, cloud-centric computers, online office apps on Monday, 21 July 2008, 10:09 pm | Leave a Comment »

Check out this article from today’s International Herald Tribune: New minicomputers for $300 Most important part of the article: Several makers are taking the low-powered PCs one step further. In the coming months, they are expected to introduce “net-tops,” low-cost versions of desktop computers intended for Internet access. A Silicon Valley start-up called CherryPal says [...]

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Major article in mass media on Cloud Computing

Posted in Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, cloud computing on Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 4:33 pm | 1 Comment »

The International Herald Tribune had an article on cloud computing yesterday. Not a bad popular account of the topic, but not particularly comprehensive or insightful. For example, while it cites Nicolas Carr’s “Big Switch,” its not a particularly good summary, omitting the negative consequences of the cloud that Carr spends a lot of time on [...]

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Tim O’Reilly’s Good Keynote At Web 2.0 Expo: With Chunk on Enterprise 2.0

Posted in Amazon Web Services, Assimilate Scratch, EngineYard, Enterprise 2.0, NLE, RightScale, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, ambient computing, cloud computing, digital cinema, google, heroku, mobile phones, presentations on Friday, 2 May 2008, 11:48 am | 1 Comment »

I always listen to what Tim O’Reilly has to say. Smart guy who knows tech and has a good track record of accurately foreseeing (and guiding) trends (he coined “Web 2.0″). It’s well worth checking out his presentation a couple weeks ago at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. In case you don’t have the [...]

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New & Improved Enterprise Cloud Computing, from Amazon Web Services

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise 2.0, Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, Werner Vogels, cloud computing on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 12:45 pm | Leave a Comment »

Phil Wainewright, in his “Software As A Service” blog at ZDNet, has a good post on Amazon’s beefed up Web Services, which include a needed dashboard to monitor the services you subscribe to, called a Health Dashboard: Wainewright praises these new monitoring tools, which up service levels, concluding his post with “AWS is now starting [...]

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Google joins Amazon, Creates a Cloud of Its Own: Google App Engine

Posted in Google App Engine, Nicholas Carr, SaaS, Web 2.0, Web Services, World Wide Computer, cloud computing, google on Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 7:09 pm | Leave a Comment »

Google just released its App Engine, free to the first 10,000 users who sign up. This is in the same space as Amazon’s Web Services (S3, EC2, etc.) Here’s how it works: From PC Magazine’s brief article on it: The service essentially does for Web apps what Google Blogger does for bloggers: provides a hosting [...]

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