Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-08
April 8, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Wishing I were blogging. #
- mmmm Google App Engine, I guess I have to learn Python now #
- Good Morning Twitterville, it’s rainy outside, but Google AppEngine is alive so that’s exciting! #
- @Chaitanya I prefer to be my own filter, that’s what I’m a Twitter/ semantic web in general fan. Makes it easy to filter your own content. #
- @vergil66 I have the Keurig machine and love it, do you like your Senseo? #
- It pains me that KU won last night, ugh #
- @mightykenny I thought that tasting was at noon? #
- @vergil66 I didn’t watch the game last night, but figured I ought to know today when I go in to work. #
- Alright, I’m headed to work Twitterati, ping ya later #
- @mcompton Usability research is a LOT of fun isn’t it? #
- I think it’s very funny that Comcast has the leaderboard ad on http://www.techcrunch.com this morning after this past weekend’s debacle #
- Seriously? People actually advocating that VHS gives you a superior personal brand over DVD/online? http://tinyurl.com/5nsc8k #
- Reading about Burlington, Vermont. Any of you in Twitterville know anything about it? #
- I’ll update my Google App Engine thoughts a little later this afternoon on my blog, so stay with me! #
- Just off the phone with Brad Robertson of the Burlington Free Press, had a great conversation. #
- Now joining a webinar on online journalism credibility sponsored by Poytner #
- Sorry for the spelling, Poynter #
- This just in: "web audiences trust our journalism more if they know about our personal ideas and commentaries" no kidding! ha! #
- My day is winding down, until my NAB/RTNDA meeting tonight at 8 #
Introducing Google AppEngine
April 7, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
It’s Google’s first foray into application stack support and infrastructure and I for one am very excited to give it a try. I was planning to go to bed early tonight and get an early start to tomorrow but now I feel the need to wait until 9 PST to signup and be one of the first 10,000 to signup for the developer’s beta program.
Do I know Python? Nope, but I’m certainly going to learn it now. Python is very popular among modern web applications and is one of the 4 or 5 primary (and exclusive) languages and Google uses and approves of in-house.
What’s amazing is that when you think of the end-result for Google by releasing an application stack of infrastructure like they are. If every developer in the world has a chance to develop web applications using the same base as Google does, well what can’t Google do?
Frankly one of the neatest aspects I see is this, if you develop on Google AppEngine, and Google likes your idea, they could buy your company or your app from you and launch it immediately. There wouldn’t be any more of this 1-year plus delay from purchase to beta re-launch under Google like JotSpot and GrandCentral who wait patiently to be integrated into the GoogleMachine. Your app already uses their system and works within their constraints, so what’s holding it back?
I’ll update this post with more as I encounter more news and information about the program in the coming hours and days. Stay tuned!
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