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Phanfare?s iPhone camera application lets you store photos in the cloud wit
2008-06-10 07:12:00 As you know, the iPhone 2.0 has just launched, and companies big and small are announcing unprecedented new mobile applications to coincide with it. Phanfare unveils an application today that will allow users to snap photos and share/distribute them widely on the internet simply by using their phone. This is an interesting example of some ...
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UNDER THE RADAR: YOUR DATA (AND LIFE) IN THE CLOUD
2008-06-03 23:50:00 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The second to the last group rounding up Tuesday's presentations at the Under the Radar conference comes from all walks of Web services. There's a tool to post your baby photos, one to have artists and creative types scramble to create something for you, an upcoming video channel surfing app, and one that organizes all your files online and off. CrowdSpring, a start-up we listed as one to watch, is a marketplace for creative ideas. The site lets you put out a project and get it crowd-sourced. The winner gets cash and potentially a job depending on what idea hunters are looking for. The service keeps track of completed projects and ideas in progress, which you can see in this logo contest, which had nearly 200 submissions from independent designers who were called upon to help rebrand a site. Ffwd (pronounced "fast forward") is the creation of former iLike and Garageband.com CEO Patrick Koppula. I got a demonstration of it earlier Tuesday and it's a real...
Silver lining in the cloud - taking lightning photos
2008-05-22 08:17:00 The weather in Delhi has been super freakish lately (for this time of the year). Daily thunderstorms have become a norm and it’s getting to be quite a nuisance. However, for every dark cloud, there exists a silver lining. Last night when the rain gods were having a party, I decided to take out my ...
By: Habitually Good
Windows 7 news and some speculations about Windows in the cloud
2008-05-13 23:29:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Windows 7 is still far, far away, but the interest in Microsoft?s next operating system is growing steadily. I think it is not because people are disappointed of Vista, but because Windows 7 could be the begin of a new type of desktop OS. Today, I found a couple of interesting posts about Windows 7. One is a demo about some new features of Windows 7, then there are some new comments from Bill Gates and Mary Jo Foley has some news about the interaction of Windows Live and Windows 7. ... read more
HP and EDS merge. Is it about the cloud?
2008-05-13 14:53:00 If you’ve been following trends, the next big thing is utility computing in the cloud. It appears HP is interested in improving their cloud position, at least in the enterprise services market. We predict infrastructure on demand from HP is on the horizon, with more cloud based services to come. HP said the deal, which ...
By: Third Pipe
Google and IBM team up in the cloud
2008-05-11 22:44:00 In a joint public statement the search giant and big iron giant announced they are teaming up to offer a broad range of hosted apps and services. The partnership should extend Google’s reach into the enterpriser market and IBM’s reach into the small/ medium business / consumer markets. Over the next year, IBM and Google ...
By: Third Pipe
Sun follows Amazon into the cloud
2008-05-05 03:22:00 To be fair Sun’s Scott McNealy has been talking up the cloud computing concept since the early days of the internet. Unfortunately, Sun never really did much to convert the lofty idea into a service for the masses like Amazon has. Recently Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted that a deal between Sun and Amazon ...
By: Third Pipe
Growing in the cloud, Yahoo opens more API?s
2008-04-25 16:35:00 We’re seeign more and more signs that Yahoo really does have a clue about computing in the cloud. On thursday, CTO Ari Balogh annouce they are opening more API’s. “We are taking open to a whole other place,” Balogh said. “We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open ...
By: Third Pipe
Battle of developer ecosystems heads for the cloud
2008-04-15 14:00:00 Battle of developer ecosystems heads for the cloudCoghead launches its Gallery of small-business applications as competition heats up among platform-as-a-service providers. htt-p://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9-916413-7.html?part=rss&subj-=news&t...
Living in ?The Cloud?
2008-04-07 19:34:00 Recently I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the pros and cons of living in the cloud, so to speak. If you’re not familiar with this term, living in the cloud basically means that you keep most of your important documents, email, etc. with online access so you can access it from any ...
By: TrishaLyn.com
Microsoft Seeking to Patent the Cloud?
2008-04-07 13:28:00 Data Center Knowledge – Seen on the Slashdot Firehose: TheODP, who has a keen eye for technology patent stories, notes that Microsoft has applied for at least six patents on cloud computing concepts. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are each named on two of the submissions. Here are ... read more
The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (pepsi comercial)
2008-04-05 19:51:00 The Cloud Room . Hey Now Now mp3 Esta canción aparece en el comercial de pepsi que vemos una y otra vez en el cine… si, ese donde sale ronaldhino y unos chicos con sus guitarras. El tema es muy pegajoso y La marce me dijo como se llamaba el grupo. He estado escuchando esta canción ...
By: hipogrifos
Dripsy the Cloud (Paperback)
2008-03-20 03:03:00 Dripsy the Cloud (Paperback)By June Celano Buy new: $19.95$19.95 Customer Rating: First tagged “childrens books” by Katie Customer tags: childrens books(2) Technorati Tags: childrens books
When You Go to the Cloud, Take Your Lawyer with You
2008-03-13 14:14:00 Many companies today are moving back office functions either totally to services like S3 or portions there of. Or they are using the cloud for backup. Thats great and we encourge it. But before you buy into it hook, line and sinker do what most people don’t — talk to your legal council. Unhuh spend ...
By: Third Pipe
More on Microsoft's database-in-the-cloud service (SQL Server Data Services
2008-03-11 17:33:00 LAS VEGAS--While Internet Explorer 8 demos, Silverlight progress and a Monkey Boy reprise from Steve Ballmer captured much of the attention at Mix 08--it was a database announcement that could be the sleeper announcement of the show. What Microsoft announced was a database-in-the-cloud service where Web developers can store their data. Those attending the Mix show here were able to sign up for a beta test that is set to begin in three or four weeks, with a final version aimed to be launched by the end of the year, according to Dave Campbell, a technical fellow in Microsoft's SQL Server division. "We're taking SQL Server we're pulling pieces of it apart and we're putting it back together," Campbell said in an interview. One of the challenges is taking software designed to run highly reliable servers and storage and turning it into a commodity service. But, Campbell said, that's also where the opportunity lies. "In this world, dumb and fast rules." "I...
The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (subtítulo Español) canción del comercial de P
2008-03-11 13:31:00 Esta canción me gusta mucho, por eso la puse en youtube con subtítulo en español.la puedes bajar acá: The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (canción del comercial de pepsi)
SMB HR application spotted in the cloud, for free
2008-03-11 01:40:00 Cloud based group workspace provider Zoho has just released an HR app in beta. Aimed at the SMB marketplace for firms with 10-50 employees, the app will fill a gap maket that has been under served by commercial software. Zoho People is a Web-based enterprise app for managing human resources"recruiting, org charts, HR forms, an employee ...
By: Third Pipe
The Cloud Streets Phenomenon
2008-02-27 12:28:00 These odd looking cloud formations are called cloud streets. They are extremely rare and caused when strong currents cut through low lying clouds leaving long clean strips. They are 300 meters tall and stretch for over 100km. Heres a vid… via
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Adobe to enable more apps in the cloud with AIR
2008-02-25 17:40:00 If adobe gets their way, developers with focusing their energies AIR instead of Windows or Mac. There is no stopping the move of apps to the cloud. What is still lacking with all of them is the ability to work without a broadband connection. AIR may very solve that problem while giving developers a ...
By: Third Pipe
Google Apps aims to move companies to the cloud
2008-02-25 12:16:00 Just like rogue employees in the 1990s forced instant messaging into corporations, the new Google Apps Team Edition being launched on Thursday offers a way for workers to slip a hosted apps service into the enterprise. This could help Google in its efforts to lure more people off desktop applications sold by Microsoft and onto the ...
Amazon S3 outage causes outrage or hiccups in the cloud
2008-02-15 23:20:00 We’re big on Amazon’s web services, and truly believe that the cloud is the new engine for all things computing. Having said that, a shadow of doubt was cast on the possibility that S3 may not be quite ready from prime time by a fairly lengthy outage this morning: There are reports that Amazon’s Simple ...
By: Third Pipe
mp-FREE: The Cloud Room release "virtual 7-inch" for Valentine's Day
2008-02-14 20:44:00 And it's an A-side and B-side of covers! Hooray for that, right? Anyways, you can view the "virtual vinyl" (which, really is just a Quicktime movie of a record player playing these songs) on the band's website right now. The...
[Counter Point] Introducing a more paperless society courtesy of the cloud
2008-02-13 00:02:00 As much as the Boss points out some very good points on a paperless shift. Nor do I think the shift will stop, its too convenient and faster. Reality points a very different picture on the industry as a whole: Growth of Lexmark, HP Print, Canon, Sharp and Brother are are running between 4-6% a ...
By: Third Pipe
Introducing a more paperless society courtesy of the cloud
2008-02-12 22:41:00 Remember that colossal failure of the 90’s called the paperless office? Big suppliers were aggressively marketing document management systems to the corporate world, with the enthusiastic support of paper hating tree huggers. The problem was the systems were expensive, cumbersome, difficult to implement and many workers used the systems to create even more printed ...
By: Third Pipe
Banking Goes to the Cloud
2008-02-11 17:09:00 Banks first created the teller, and it was considered good. Banks then created the ATM, and it was considered great. Banks then created electronic banking systems and it was considered fanastic. Banks have now created checks scanned to deposit, and it is? Oh, well the jury is still out. Fact the technology is just ...
By: Third Pipe
571. Sparked Art: The Cloud
2008-02-11 05:52:00 This digital sculpture is found in Heathrow Airport, and is made out of about 5,000 individually-controlled (via computer) flip-dots. Designed by Troika. Check out the clip below (via Make). *
Software testing goes to the masses via the cloud
2008-02-11 05:12:00 I’m going to coin the phrase cloud sourcing. Remember you saw it here first! Software testing just got a lot easier for business. Now anyone can be involved in software testing, and can even get paid for it. Not only can enterprise level computing be done in the cloud, but enterprise level project staffing can be ...
By: Third Pipe
The Cloud Shall Overcome
2008-02-07 19:57:00 In what has to be the stupidest move of the TSA yet they are now siezing, copying and viewing the contents of laptops, cellphones and PDA’s. So lets not be coy here, lets just shred the friggin’ Constitution and be done with it. Is there a lawyer in the house? – ACTE last year filed a Freedom of Information Act request to press the government for information on what happens to data seized from laptops and other electronic devices. “Is it destroyed right then and there if the person is in fact just a regular business traveler?” Gurley asked. “People are quite concerned. They don’t want proprietary business information floating, not knowing where it has landed or where it is going. It increases the anxiety level.” Udy has changed all her work passwords and no longer banks online. Her company, Radius, has tightened its data policies so that traveling employees must access company information remotely via an encrypted channel, and their la...
By: Third Pipe
The Cloud Gets a Little Smarter, Again
2008-02-07 15:52:00 We have from time to time mentioned various services available from the Cloud. Things like S3, AWS from amazon, iGoogle, Google Docs, from Google. All good, and all have one thing not necessarily in their favor — serious assembly ahead. But what if you run a little blog and just want to have a simple guest book, RSVP or quick survey from friends. You could code up some S3 Db but that is overkill for what is a throw away effort. You need something quick and light and could be done in less than an hour of twiddling. And its here — Google Docs. The Google Spreadsheet has had some features upgrades as reported by Google Operating System. All you really need is a Google Docs account, a little knowledge of HTML and your ready to go. – Login and open up the spreadsheet. Now for our purposes the spreadsheet will be treated like a database with a single table. Create the column headers. These will represent your field names on the form. The rows will represent what is fi...
By: Third Pipe
The Cloud Gets a Little Smarter
2008-02-06 19:00:00 Mail services, ie the security for the transport has increased for those using Goggle Apps. As the security of services increase to the point that on-net services are as secure as on hardware the adoption rate will increase. Especially among small companies who can’t afford full time IT staff. — Google acquired last year Postini, a company that offered hosted services for email servers. “Postini invented the software as a service approach to providing communications security and compliance, and holds two fundamental patents in the space, with more patents pending.” Google integrated a small part of the offering in Google Apps Premier Edition: policy management, spam/virus filtering and 90-days message recovery. Now Google offers the rest of the Postini services under the Google Apps umbrella, but without tying them with Google Apps Premier Edition and Gmail. Google Apps Security Services work with the most important email servers (Microsoft Exchange Server, ...
By: Third Pipe
Keepers of the Cloud: Who Will Hold the Key to Our Information?
2008-02-05 20:41:00 This article discusses the current mass exodus of our local information into the so-called data cloud. Many of us don't even realize it's happening. With all the enticing benefits of the tools in the cloud, the move seems inevitible. But who should we trust? Should we even make the move into the cloud or keep our data to ours7 Zoom(s)
The Cloud Expands
2008-01-31 20:40:00 Google is moving to advance network services in Taiwan. They are cooperating with National Taiwan University and Chiao Tung University. Most conventional software applications have been designed for processing data and computing in a PC environment, said Christophe Bisciglia, Google’s senior software engineer and key promoter of Google’s Cloud Computing project. Along with the fast increasing availability of broadband Internet bandwidth, Cloud Computing aims to break the limitation of the capacity of PCs by storing software programs and data as well as executing data processing and computing in a Web world, a cloud of computers/servers with a multitude of programs and data files, Bisciglia pointed out. To meet the requirements of Cloud Computing for Internet-based data storage and parallel processing/computing, the design logic of software based on PC architecture should be modified and/or rebuilt, Chien indicated. This is the core of the cooperation, and Google will pr...
By: Third Pipe
Another Way to Play to the Cloud…
2008-01-28 18:42:00 The Boss points to a very neat way to virutalize your existence in the Cloud in the post below. Let me point you to another way as well. Your choice would probably be personal preference. The cornerstone of this would be say gOS on a USB fob with two other applications — Firefox with Google Docs Bar and Google Gears. This would give you a similiar experience with one added benefit. The Google Docs Bar encrypts your content on the fly. Downsides? Well you do have to sync your content some time to assure consistency. And of course your experience is in direct proportion to your bandwidth. Either way though is a perfect fit for these new sub $200 machines that are crawling out of the woodwork. Lightweight OS, apps constrained to webified tools and storage in the Network. With on demand encrypt/decrypt the reason not to shrinks even further.
By: Third Pipe
Open Source Portable Apps puts the cloud and more on your keychain.
2008-01-28 18:10:00 Here’s an interesting little stack of open source that has been around for a while, but has just been discovered by yours truly. Designed to work on any storage device, it’s right at home on a USB memory dongle. Portable Apps may very well solve a big problem of mine since work at several computers through the course of and am always installing as updating apps and moving data between. It’s also intriguing that I could carry a dongle instead of a laptop when I travel, assuming i can find a library or stay in a hotel with public computers. The free, open source, dongle friendly, PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go. Currently Portable Apps is a Windows only product, but it’s open sou...
By: Third Pipe
Windows 7 Will Stretch into the Cloud
2008-01-25 00:47:00 If you think that Windows Vista, or Vista Service Pack 1, or even Windows XP Service Pack 3 are the apex when it comes down to the Windows operating system, then you should reconsider… Microsoft revealed that Windows 7 would go beyond both Vista SP1 and XP 3, to deliver an entirely new experience for the end users. Windows 7 will not only bring to the table a completely overhauled Windows core, featuring a stripped down kernel and a redesigned graphical user interface, but it will also expand the user experience beyond what Vista and XP are able to offer today. Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Experience, David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services, and Brian Arbogast, Corporate Vice President of Mobile Services, have authored an internal memo of the intimate connection planned for Windows 7 and Windows Live, that came under the eyes of Mary Jo Foley. "We will invest to deliver a seamless experience for customers who own a ...
The Kids are in The Cloud Already
2008-01-22 19:37:00 ThirdPipe has been saying consistently that early adopters will move to the web in a big way. Looks like the tech savvy kids are already there according to SharkBait. – Carrying around USB keys is so Twentieth Century. Internet savvy kids don’t do it any more. Why would you carry around a device that can ...
By: Third Pipe
Friday Flash Fiction: The Cloud
2008-01-18 17:44:00 Ok. Fumbled this one. Guess that’s what happens if you leave it to the last minute. There are actually two stories here, if you look hard enough. Feedback as ever is welcome. The Cloud By Neil Beynon The funeral was today. I was compelled to go although I didn?t want to. Dreadful affairs. Communal displays of emotion make me ...
Never, Ever Use a Debit Card in The Cloud!
2008-01-16 01:02:00 Do you do business on the Internet using a debit card account? Or do you have an account with someone using automatic debit? I would advise you reconsider. – Dreamhost would like you to know that its very very sorry for accidentally billing its customers $7.5 million it wasn’t actually owed. You see, someone typed 2008 when they really meant 2007 and their billing system decided to charge all of their customers in advance for the entire 2008 calendar year. This included debiting huge amounts of money from people’s checking accounts and all the “worst possible scenario” situations you could possibly imagine. Tom, friend of the blog, and master of the internet, was among those affected: Well, this morning I got a billing email from them: This is just a notice that your DreamHost [redacted] (”zug’s Account”) has a balance of $380.87 (including any charges not due until 2009-01-14), with $340.97 due (since 2008-12-14). Dreamhost is a v...
By: Third Pipe
Start up Longjump adds another database utility to the cloud
2008-01-14 15:09:00 With its introduction in the shadow of Amazon’s cloud based database, Longjump is hoping multi interface access and workflow management will be give them an advantage over the incumbent. In comparison to Amazons service, LongJumps relational database further encapsulates objects within its database, so that they can be worked with more easily. For example, LongJump lets you do things like search for relationships, i.e, letting you show all products in your database that are say, related to a sports (or category = sports). In Amazons case, you have call up data about your products, and do the search analysis yourself or with some other product. A range of other database or related services, from DabbleDB, Coghead and Zoho, also dont let you manage workflow. (from Venturebeat) Look for a lot more utility computing from a diverse group of providers this year - both old and new. This kind of power is going to get cheaper, and easier to use very quickly. Services like this used to ...
By: Third Pipe
iSpy, of the Cloud Kind
2007-12-31 07:01:00 Mark Andrejevic is the author of a book called iSpy. No its not a review of the old TV series but the matters of digital capture of your personal habits. The matters he touches on will be of considerable importance to the wireless ThirdPipe world we will live in, in the not too distance future. Program ...
By: Third Pipe
The Cloud Room - The Cloud Room
2007-12-31 05:40:00 Una banda interesante y mundialmente conocida por que uno de sus temas pertenece a un comercial de Pepsi.powered by ODEOThe Cloud Room - The Cloud Room
1 million DRM free books now available in the cloud
2007-12-26 15:05:00 I’m not ready to declare 2008 the year of the cloud yet, but 2009 is likely. From communications to applications, cloud based computing has become more convenient and in the case of media and information, more powerful than traditional sources. The explosive growth of services like Wikipedia, which has obsoleted the encyclopedia by providing a platform for mass collaboration and information sharing is only the tip of the iceberg.In the cloud, the Long Tail is the rule rather than the exception. Case in point: the Universal Digital Library. You are not likely to the New York Times best seller list here, but you will find the classic and the obscure. This is a boon to scholars, who have more research material instantly available than at any time in the past. An international venture called the Universal Library Project has made more than one million books freely available in digitized format. The joint project of researchers from China, India, Egypt, and the US has the eventual...
By: Third Pipe
Mozilla Weave to send your metadata to the cloud
2007-12-23 22:35:00 One of the keys to the ThirdPipe changing the environment is portability access. When the device type is not critical to the information resource all sorts of things can happen. Well another tool is being developed that may help in some small part in getting there. The tool is called Weave from Mozilla Labs. The whole point of Weave is to be able to access data sets using the meta data headers as a clue. Then present this data to browsers with appropriate plugs to view that data. The website provides some use cases for Weave – 1. Automatic backup and restore - Dan’s hard drive has died. Like many folks, Dan had never gotten around to getting that backup solution he knew he needed. Dan feels miserable when he thinks of all the software he needs to install, the stuff he’s lost, and all the account names and passwords he’ll never remember. Then he realizes that his family photos, email and calendar are all hosted online, as well as all of the services he uses to...
By: Third Pipe
DocSyncer opens beta, merges local docs with the cloud
2007-12-19 00:00:00 James has a great post sharing his concerns with working in the cloud, something I'm doing nearly all the time these days. I think this is great for our readers: one of us here works locally on docs and artifacts while the other is just as mobile and "sky-writes" everything ...
Walking around with your head in the cloud
2007-12-19 00:00:00 Do you work in the cloud? There is no question about the rise of importance in keeping your information in the cloud and some folks are embracing working in the cloud. The ramp up of Google Apps fits with the philosophy of keeping your documents in the cloud so that ...
Large scale database now in the cloud
2007-12-14 20:45:00 Amazon is easily among a handful of companies like Google that get “it” in terms of the quickly developing a connected world we live in. The key to getting “it” is understanding that the way to grow into a giant in the new age is to enable the individual to be more creative and do ...
By: Third Pipe
Nokia signs deal with WiFi provider The Cloud with free access to Music Sto
2007-12-11 21:34:00 So free access to Nokia?s Music Store, that?s the deal that?s been struck between Nokia and WiFi provider The Cloud. If you?ve ever been to an airport you?ll have heard of them. This non-exclusive deal will provide users with free Wi-Fi connection to the Nokia Music Store, which features over two million tracks. So, how about ...
By: Phones Review
The Cloud, Google, the Future, PM?s View
2007-12-02 18:40:00 Popular Mechanics has a very interesting piece on Google’s GDrive. The core of the article is a discussion with security – Leaving files exclusively on a virtual drive or data cloud could, eventually, usher in a new era of computing where mobile devices replace large, clunky desktops sitting in offices and homes. A virtual drive ...
By: Third Pipe
The ?Cloud? Trend!
2007-11-26 03:11:00 Winter has only just arrived and I?m already wishing on Summer, this maybe down to the freezing cold weather or it could be due to all the stunning new collections and trends I have been viewing on Style.com, knowing me its probably the latter! One trend I found particularly interesting was the ?Cloud? trend that Zac ... |
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