- Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler – TechCrunch
I want you to stop what you are doing right now and go try Presdo. It is a deceptively simple online scheduling assistant that is a prime example of what a modern Web app should be. It only shows you what you need to see at the moment that you need to see it. And it understands what you want to do based on normal (and not-so-normal) English that you type in.Beautiful simplicity.
Archive for April, 2008
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April 21, 2008- The killer real estate app time forgot – 1000Watt Blog
It was a killer app then; it is a killer app today. It was Web 2.0 before we even knew what that was.
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April 17, 2008- May We Help You? – Amazon Web Services Blog
From the very beginning, we’ve always wanted to make sure that developers had all of the formal and informal support needed to build and to run their applications. - The Service Health Dashboard – Amazon Web Services Blog
We now have a Service Health Dashboard available at http://status.aws.amazon.com.
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April 14, 2008- Urgency is poisonous – Signal vs. Noise
So far our four-day work week experiment is working. We haven’t found ourselves collectively wishing we had an extra work day a week. We haven’t found ourselves gasping for extra hours. Instead I feel like we’ve been more focused and working better together. - Draft Syndication Data Standard Approved – FBS Blog
Last week at the RETS trimester meeting, a draft of a syndication data format was approved by the general session. A brief history… - Storage Space, The Final Frontier – Amazon Web Services Blog
In the same way that your running EC2 instances, your Elastic IP addresses, your S3 buckets and your SQS queues can be thought of as items contained within the scope of your AWS account, our forthcoming persistent storage feature will give you the ability to create reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with EC2. Once created, these volumes will be part of your account and will have a lifetime independent of any particular EC2 instance.
items for 04.06.2008
April 7, 2008- How EC2 changes the game in batch grid computing – RightScale Blog
Enter Amazon EC2. If user A enqueues a job needing 500 nodes for 10 hours and user B a job needing 800 nodes for 5 hours what do you do? Very simple: you check the balance in their account and then start 500 instances for user A and 800 instances for user B. Done. No priorities, no scheduling, just pure compute fun!
One of us (Ed) observed: the resource that is “allocated” in the finite computer center is the use of hardware, but the resource that is “managed” in a Cloud is cost. It is a new mind set that 1 computer for 100 hours has the same cost as 100 computers for 1 hour. Of course there are details such as start up costs for large numbers of nodes and ensuring that each billed instance hour is fully used. But those details are a small leap when compared to the issue of understanding that 1=100. - Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service – TechCrunch
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven’t been contacted by Google.
BigTable is a highly scalable database system used internally by Google to support over 60 of its products and projects. A source says Google has plans to announce next week that it will make BigTable available to outside developers as a service. Amazon provides a similar service through SimpleDB, a cloud database solution announced in December.
