Vlad

This is getting really interesting. Big Brother Google opened it’s App Engine to 10,000 developers for preview. This means full access to Google’s storage, search & computing power (limitations do apply) and to the authentication system.

This is gonna take a serious dent in Amazon’s S3 and EC2 market share.

I’m generally not a Google fanboy. Really! Though, I do think their search is the best thing since sliced bread and Gmail is the greatest free service (just a figure of speech, nothing is free these days). And I love the Reader.

Web feeds (RSS or Atom) are great if you want to track blogs, discussions, news and web sites of all kind. I’ve been using them for some time and I have a strong feeling I’ll stick to them some more. But consuming them is a long story. In time I’ve used numerous systems. Some were desktop apps, others were web services. I’ve had my share of passing OPMLs from one program/service to another. Read more »

Here’s a scenario Gmail -> Reader. Gmail -> Reader. Gmail -> Reader. It happens in most cases (I take a wild guess and say about 90%) for me (and probably for many others).

So it gets annoying when the link to Reader keeps moving from one day to another. Now it’s in the right place:

But will it stay there, or tomorrow I’ll find it under more?

Do not touch that button!

Vio put together this tutorial for some time now. But now it’s available as an embeddable presentation. Can’t resist that:

It took a while but JotSpot was relaunched:

Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of products designed to improve communication and collaboration amongst employees, students, and groups. Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world.

More info at Google Operating System.