Smashed Apples by Brian Holmes

Help! What to do without a Google AppEngine Account

This topic came up in the normal course of conversation. Here’s the answer. Which translated means “No Excuses: Develop your App”. Check it out. While you’re at it, here’s a post from two weeks ago to put the Google App Engine in context. And here’s a post about the rumored cost of google app engine from Dave Winer. The money quote is:

How much would it be worth to buy companies without having to transition their technology to their platform? There would be no retraining either, all the programmers in the companies they acquire would know how to work in the environment.

 

Well, we know now it is free. It would be beneficial for Google to buy a startup off of thier cloud. I can’t imagine YouTube being built off Google though. I think it has more to do with people using Google services and Google allowing for AdSense integration. Also, in my own opinion, WEB 2.0 is about to take over the business world. I can think of alot of apps for small businesses that would be very beneficial of being on the cloud. 

 

 

 

 

Tags: SDK, Google+App+Engine, Cloud+Services

Apparently you have to make money

If your a Web 2.0 startup Cyndy Aleo-Carreira  thinks  you need to make money

Money Quote :

 There are days like today when I feel like Julia Roberts' character in Pretty Woman pointing out that no one is buying anything anywhere, although Richard Gere still made pots of money.

 

Maybe it’s time to drop the Open Source gig and get a job.

 

Tags: Web+2.0

Yahoo! and that old dude?

I haven’t been real interested in the Microsoft Yahoo! deal. I think, because by and large, I can’t see much benefit for me as a flex developer out of the deal. But apparently after escaping from the clutching arms of Bill Gates and his teams of minions, Yahoo! has seemed to wander right into waiting arms of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp, ( which is looking more and more like the Umbrella Corp ).

Now this is more interesting to me. Yahoo! and MySpace together with the MySpace Incubator program and also, since Yahoo! has been giving alot to the flex community lately like the recently released Yahoo! Maps. Think about building an app with Yahoo! data feeds, combined with MySpace socials all wrapped up in an incubator program designed to bubble up new and exciting apps. All that’s left to do is write your business plan.

Well, if they don’t get together, somebody else ( Google, Microsoft, Amazon ) is going to do something similar. And if not there’s always this option.

ps. It’d be nice if Adobe put up some Cloud Servers, but that’s probably not their bag baby.

 

 

Tags: Yahoo!, News+Corp