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blog.twidox.com » Blog Archive » News roundup — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:56:34 +0000

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By: syrian-online

syrian-online — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:09:35 +0000

Before there was techcrunch, there was Akamai

By: Single Minded

Single Minded — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:34:44 +0000

To find the reason behind Nings extra funding, start snooping around adult related forums in the SouthWest lol

Just a bunch of horny geeks looking for a better way to make a self moderated community.

By: washer

washer — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:11:56 +0000

Sweet line up there. Congrats on pulling them in, and good luck with the show.

By: Loren

Loren — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:22:11 +0000

iT’s the Lord Jesus Christ’s Cloud

Book of Acts Chapter 1

King James 1611 Only!

By: james

james — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:11:28 +0000

Before there was techcrunch, there was Akamai.

Akamai was the first real business that provided cloud to businesses. Call it CDN, but in reality, they were (maybe still are) the largest cloud provider out there.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:05:29 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:04:00 +0000

By: Ning

Ning — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:15:00 +0000

[...] Amazon, Ning, Facebook, And Rackspace Join Our Cloud Roundtable (techcrunch.com) – February 19, 2009Our roundtable on cloud computing is coming up next week. (Get tickets here via Eventbrite: $75 each based on availability). In addition to … [...]

By: diabetes man

diabetes man — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:06:34 +0000

great moment…

By: beq

beq — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:10:12 +0000

P.S. I wish I can combine the best features of online sharing/sync services such as Dropbox, Syncplicity, SugarSync, etc, with Jungle Disk (and having my own S3 account)!

http://forum.ju...p?p=42271#42271

By: beq

beq — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:42:03 +0000

From a consumer/SOHO perspective, is there any chance you can ask about Rackspace’s plans for their acquisition of Jungle Disk? It’s a given that Jungle Disk will add support for Mosso Cloud Files, but will support for Amazon S3 also be phased out?

Any info on future Jungle Disk developments would also be welcome — ie. having public access/sharing, syncing (instead of just backing up), etc.

By: pinku

pinku — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:12:44 +0000

gina is there for the glamor quotient.

By: roman

roman — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:15:58 +0000

what’s gina doing on the panel? a marketing ceo that knows nothing about technology whose company has almost nothing to do with real cloud services…

By: Fabricio Zuardi

Fabricio Zuardi — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:35:08 +0000

I don’t know about Facebook, but Ning before last October(when they shut down source code access and external APIs) used to offer a programmable cloud platform to run hosted web applications too. Every Ning account used to come with sftp and webdav access to a remote sandboxed PHP environment with access to their APIs, which included a scalable non-relational datastore, much like what Google AppEngine and Amazon SimpleDB offers today.

So I believe they do have the experience of offering distributed and programmable cloud computing web platforms even though that offer is currently closed for the general public AFAIK their main product (the customizable social network) is built to run on top of this platform (formerly referenced as the Ning Platform) and all their 850k+ networks still runs on top of this same architecture that used to be open for everyone interested in programming for more than 2 years (the social network application source code was even released as open source Apache 2 licensed, and I am sure there are copies of it still online).

I have built some apps on the Ning cloud myself, the most popular being http://cchits.org, a digg-like website for creative commons music tracks

So, yes, all this companies one way or another are working on very similar problems and I think this Roundtable can be very good to bring attention for the issues they have faced or are still facing and what solutions are being developed.

I only wish Ning’s CTO or some other more technical person was invited too for the table, since Gina might not be the best person to discuss all the developer topics that are of interest in their cloud

By: kaustuv

kaustuv — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:44:56 +0000

I would also like to see any potential interfacing between social networks and mobile banking software. For example, can a person open his or her bank account through his or her facebook account? Can Facebook become an additional touchpoint to access your bank? If you are a overseas worker, can you use your friendster account to remit money home? Again, lots of issues will arise on API interfacing, security, and so on- but if you believe it can be done, it can be done. It would be incredible if the explosions in social media networks and mobile commerce run on 2 parallel tracks and never meet.

By: kaustuv

kaustuv — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:41:58 +0000

I would love to see what cloud computing can do in the internet and mobile banking domains. I do not see the time consuming and expensive customisation required in both cases being very tenable for much longer- in fact that may be one reason for mobile banking not taking off as much as it should. There should be banks banding together and procuring services off the cloud- easier said than done, but doable, esp for local banks in Asia that are still up and running.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:29:08 +0000

“Friday, February 27, 2009 from 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)”

Most people that have a job find themselves at work at that exact time.

By: La Jolla Shores Vacation Rentals

La Jolla Shores Vacation Rentals — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:16:38 +0000

Wish I could fly over to join the fun

By: Isidoro Reyes De Zuloaga

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Is there any webex?

By: Alex Chriss

Alex Chriss — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:58:50 +0000

Very exciting that TechCrunch is hosting this.
We’ll have a bunch of Intuit Partner Platform team members there and look forward to participating.

Oh, and I think it’s our cloud btw

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:51:36 +0000

I agree, is this cloud computing or social networking? Another great small cloud computing company is http://www.newservers.com.

By: jheLo

jheLo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:39:39 +0000

This is a great event! Congratulations are early as now!

By: J Miller

J Miller — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:58:59 +0000

I still don’t see a showing from real cloud players like VMware. The industry already recognizes the platform…

VMware infrastructure has been named the “Best Overall Cloud Product” and “Best Cloud Platform” at the inaugural Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards

Is TechCrunch talking about a “Cloud” or are you thinking about a distributed or “Grid” computing solution?

By: Francis Simisim

Francis Simisim — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:45:35 +0000

Congratulations on the new baby, It must’ve been tough writing and the baby crying. Goodluck

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