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• Another Example Of Google App Engine’s Strength

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  Check out http://bigtable.appspot.com/ It’s basically a REST interface to the Google BigTable database service that is included with Google App Engine. This is simple, yet powerful stuff. And, this is just another example - see my earlier post on creating a simple blog engine on top of this infrastructure. So, yeah

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• code.flickr - Open Source 1-Stop Shop For Yahoo! Flickr

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  [ image] Taste the rainbow. The Yahoo! Flickr team has their own Open Source code repository now, known as code.flickr. Here’s the announcement. The Subversion tree currently only has the source to their Flickr Uploadr tool, written in XULRunner, but that’s a great start. The Flickr API is a beautiful thing

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• IPython on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

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  Some interesting things have happened recently that have caused me to spend way too much time writing Python code: Google App Engine was release with native support for pure Python web applications. It’s now really easy to write and deploy Python applications that are extremely scalable on top of a solid (and portable)  infrastructure

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• Sharpcast SugarSync Launch Statistics

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  [ image] The folks at Sharpcast have taken notice of the articles that I have written recently about the online file synchronization market. They contacted me and shared some of the statistics for the SugarSync launch that happened on Mar 20. The stats were interesting, so I asked if I could share them with you all on my blog, and they agreed

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• Cassatt: The Green Data Center As A Step To Utility Computing

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  [ image] ComputerWorld did a nice video interview with Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt Corporation, on the positioning of Cassatt as a "Green Data Center" software company as opposed to a "Utility Computing" software company. You should watch it. Some selected points raised by Bill include: Cassatt is trying to build the company around what people

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  and portable)  infrastructure. Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and included support for Python as a first-class citizen in its Xcode development tool (which lets you develop with Xcode/Interface Builder pretty seamlessly), in its ScriptingBridge (which allows you to access AppleScript enabled applications using the goodness of Python,

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• Nuova Systems & Cisco: Sealing The Deal

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  I wrote a detailed look into the economics of the Nuova Systems and Cisco "M&A" deal (way back in October 2006) in the article: Nuova Systems & Cisco: New Corporate VC Model? Many thanks to my friend Tom Lyon for giving me an early look into what the Nuova Systems folks were up to. And congratulations to the team for completing this

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• An Example Of Why Google App Engine Will Win

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  So, we’ve all heard about Google App Engine by now, right? Well, here’s a great example of how easy it is to make an interesting app, in a very small amount of code, on Google App Engine. And, have it be automatically scalable. Surf on over to Bret Taylor’s blog. Bret is one of the FriendFeed founders. You’ll notice that the blog is, in fact,

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• "Google App Engine Body-Slams Amazon Web Services"

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  I love it.[ image] Google makes a strong move into the scalable web services arena with the introduction of Google App Engine. Features include: Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions) Automatic scaling and load balancing Google

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• IDC Virtualization Forum West - Simon Crosby

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  [ image] Simon Crosby, formerly the Founder & CTO of XenSource and, since the acquisition, now the CTO of the Virtualization & Management Division at Citrix, did a very nice job with the morning’s kick-off sponsor presentation at the IDC Virtualization Forum West conference. Some takeaways that I found interesting:

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