Built for the cloud or moving to the cloud
Are applications built for the cloud more likely to succees than those being migrated to the cloud?
twitter v. google for (re)search
Where would we be without google (search)? It has opened up a world of information for all of us. But what now as twitter gets a real foothold. It feels a little like the difference between listening to an hourly nes bulletin and reading a daily newspaper. Perhaps with Google I can find the more [...]
Google and books
Commented previously on Google and books. Within this context this article from the New York Review of Books should be read for a more detailed background understanding. Am surprised there has been so little comment in the press. Share on Facebook
first the newspaper industry, now the book industry?
This is going to drive more change in the book industry -regardless of any revenue sharing models.
What’s in azure right now?
Attended great presentation by David Chappell at Microsoft in Dublin this morning. Fascinating comparison of the offerings from SalesForce, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Interesting explanation of Microsoft's focus on providing a platform in this version of Azure to enable us to build the next 'Facebook'. Explained why cannot migrate classic enterprise applications to this Azure [...]
Storage and the cloud
In his article Scott provides very positive feedback on the data storage options with www.azure.com. While Scott is careful to provide balance in picking out a number of specific strengths of the other reviewed solutions – Amazon and Google – he certainly makes a strong case of azure. Would depend on what's more important in [...]
Web 2.0 Expo SF, 2008
Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media) gave a good key note at the web 2.0 Expo in SF, last month (see presentation). He has some tendency towards hyperbole e.g. in speaking of Web 2.0 using such phrases as: ‘a turning point akin to literacy, cities…’. However he has a number of well made and supported points. The [...]