GoGrid
October 22, 2008
GoGrid is an online service where you pay by the "server RAM hour" for computing resources. Basically you can provision Windows or Linux boxes and pay about USD$0.19 per hour for each GB of RAM you server has. GoGrid is the culmination of two years of development effort by ServePath engineers. GoGrid enables system administrators to launch, control and load balance servers and complex server networks with full root access and administrative server control in minutes.
GoGrid is unique in cloud computing with the availability of 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008; and was named winner of LinuxWorld 2008 "Best of Show" in August. GoGrid is a division of ServePath, a company with extensive expertise and experience in web hosting infrastructure. The ServePath team wanted to develop a new kind of hosting solution to address the scaling needs of today's businesses. GoGrid is the world's first multi-server control panel ...Read full article
The Google Lively
October 18, 2008
Google Lively is Google's move into the 3D world. One thing that is neat about google lively is that after you download the installer, it runs in the browser and allows people to place their virtual rooms on their blog or websites. Google Lively is a a huge step in the direction of mass market for this, making it integral to your web experience. Google Lively is seen as a combination between animation and a Disney movie, with wide-eyed avatars and colorful, angular scenery. Chat bubbles are brightly colored and attached to avatars with long stems. Google Lively is the new virtual world created by the world's largest search engine. Google Lively is billed as a "chat experience" using avatars.
Google Lively is a great whack at a first generation 3D chat room. Clever since it minimizes the burden of user entry as it is browser-based. Google lively is a mini ...Read full article
Joost TV
October 17, 2008
Joost is the latest software from the same team that brought us Skype and Kazaa, and just like those technologies, Joost is based on peer-to-peer technology. Peer-to-peer systems distribute the services (such as access to music files) traditionally held at a server across all the participants in the network. Joost is the first online, global TV distribution platform, bringing together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an interactive, community-driven environment. Joost can be accessed with a broadband Internet connection and offers broadcast-quality content to viewers for free. Joost is completely free, and works with most modern PCs and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection.
Joost is completely Legal and the content is cleared and sent to Joost by the content owners .No user generated content is allowed on the service. Joost even protects its streams with military grade encryption and doesn't store the full show on end users computers to ...Read full article
Google App Engine
October 16, 2008
Google App Engine is a new web-hosting platform that enables developers to build highly scalable web applications that run on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine is a free application environment in which a developer can use Python to build scalable and stable high-performance web applications hosted on a Google server. App Engine offers sandbox-style security, providing a strong barrier around the App Engine application environment. Google App Engine is an all-or-nothing offering and that's a little bit creepy. There may have been factory owners in the early days of commodified electricity who wanted to keep some parts of that world in-house too, so perhaps Google's all-in-one offering will seem reasonable in the future.
Google App Engine is an application programing environment built with the same scalable technology and infrastructure that runs some of Google’s applications. Once an application is developed for App Engine, it can them be uploaded and hosted by ...Read full article
The Internet TV
October 14, 2008
Internet TV is usually delivered to the PC or another device using peer-to-peer technology. There are still issues with the video quality, and users generally need some technical know-how to set up. Internet TV is something that will catch on - it just won't be an overnight success. You can hardly expect internet TV to be more popular than a book especially for something that has only had a decent standard in the last 18 months. Internet TV is a list of streaming video feeds from various internet sources. As with local TV you can either choose to watch a stream or record it for later.
Internet TV is beginning to reach the peak of its evolution. The choice and depth available here is unrivalled. Internet TV is relatively new -- there are lots of different ways to get it, and quality, content and costs can vary greatly. Internet TV is ...Read full article
