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 [...]
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 24 [...]
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 | No Comments »
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 to [...]
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 | No Comments »
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 solution for Web [...]
Posted in Anne Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Variety, Web 2.0, World Wide Computer, cinema, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, film criticism, long tail, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:37 am | 2 Comments »
Ok. So the single book I brought with me to India last week was Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, which I wrote about 3 weeks ago and now apparently is high on the WSJ Business bestseller list (was high? Oddly, I can’t find it listed there today, so perhaps it just had a hot-selling week. [...]
Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft, Nicholas Carr, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, cloud computing, groupware, online office apps on Friday, 7 March 2008, 4:58 am | 2 Comments »
[UPDATE 30 Mar 2008: see my additional post on this book]
Tim O’Reilly reports that a tech book his company publishes, “The Big Switch”, has perhaps just hit an inflection point–quadrupling sales (to approx. 4,300 copies/week) in the past week.
The book is by Nicolas Carr and is about how cloud computing is the future of computing–just [...]
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