Live From Google Campfire One

i just drove by a google building haha funny.

Scoble looks beautiful! That logo looks awesome. Can’t wait to hear more.

I didn’t realize Leah Culver was there. I was at FOWA, and got a chance to hear her speak. She was very good. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to meet her.

I’m guessing this is going to be Google bringing BigTable as SaaS a la Amazon SimpleDB.

That’s why it would, as Scoble said, only really impact developers but could sorta impact users, too.

Could be the beginnings of an all-out Google v. AWS war.

Of course, I could be (and probably am) wrong all together, but the pieces seem to fit together nicely.

Michael I saw you trying to run away from Scoble

Would the announcement shake the world…

Every city and town needs a Robert Scoble. He seems like a fun guy.

Wrong embed code, guys — that’s the video embed, not the channel embed. The right embed is on http://qik.com/scobleizer (right side of page - Channel embed)

cheers,
Michael

Ah there you go it’s not autoplaying though — looking into it.

google is just burning tru it’s money.

However no PHP and mySQL so i guess i’ll wait.

Hmm… that logo looks familiar…
http://codeigniter.com/

michael from qik… any word what’s up with the stream?

You know what they say about people that use smileys…

qik wont even load

Seems like a fun event.

The UI looks a lot like the Google Analytics dashboard.

More information consolidation, perfect. I hope in a year I can put in my SSN and they can tell me what I believe. It’ll be a lot easier than the way I’m figuring this out now.

Laptops and wifi - now thats my idea of a camping trip!

did not expect the live stream when I clicked through to this story. nice!

So if I’m a start-up, do I really want to have my code on Google’s system? How much access are they going to have to my code? Are they going to open source the solution so I can move things to another platform once I have scaled?

What’s with the 500MB…Gmail has more than 10X that? No photo or video apps, I guess.

Thanks for the live stream guys! Too bad I only caught the tail end of it. I’m interested in hearing more of the details on this, especially if there is any Google branding requirement and which pieces will end up being free or how much they will be. I wonder if I’ll be able to mix in other non-Google technologies in with the app. Going to read the other article now, and waiting for the full details at code.google.com

Cool announcement Google made. Also cool to watch it on Scoble’s Qik Channel. That’s got huge ramifications, BTW.

But as to the platform, I think Google did very well. It’s a great start with lots of ramifications for the other players.

More on my blog:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.co.....ns-python/

Best,

BW

FYI: some video trouble cut out a section, hence the two vids.

Hmm. I signed up at http://appengine.google.com/ but it says “Unfortunately, space is limited during Google App Engine’s preview release. As we expand, we’ll invite more developers, but for now you’ll have to wait.”

Did anyone get a message other than this when trying to signup?

Google makes things easier so you can become Google’s bitch. Thanks, but no thanks! If I am going to months to write a webapp, I can spend a few weeks to make sure I can host the damn thing my self, with S3 and my own web servers. This will in no way harm Amazon, which will continue to be used by serious web developers. For idiots, and people who want to tie their web code to Google’s proprietary libraries and hosting solution that can’t be deployed anywhere but Google, which is by definition a copy of Microsofts ASP garbage, they can use Google’s system. The only way for Google to redeem themselves would be to Open Source their stack, seeing as that’s not happening, real web developers are not going to give this stack a chance! Google owns your code, data, and statistics, thanks, but I aint a bitch! Any serious business person would never give such a stupid business decision an iota of thought!

@Dan-

Same message here…

anyone get the account?

Yeah, same msg here. Looks like they switched the links on us too.

Got my confirmation email!
”
Hello,

Thanks for signing up to try Google App Engine! Your account has been activated, so you can begin building applications!

To start creating applications with Google App Engine, simply follow this link (you may need to sign in with your XXXXXX@gmail.com Google Account):

http://appengine.google.com/

Thanks!
The Google App Engine Team
“

Yeah, I also got a confirmation email and just signed up.

@GQ

Theorem: All apps hosted on goog will be trivial.

Proof:
Any serious app that can compete with goog cannot be hosted by goog itself.

QED

got my invite. initial thoughts: simpler but not nearly as cool as aws. if we could use just the datastore from an outside hose it would be really useful, but as of now I’m sticking with aws.

There was actually five videos. I linked to all five here: http://scobleizer.com/2008/04/.....-services/

Google has tried to do things apart from search but I don’t think it is most successful in different directions.

I agree that logolooks like codeigniter (http://codeigniter.com/)

What a awesome event !