This conference was great and filled with interesting sessions showing different views about the cloud.
Thanks Paulo for organizing it! It was your effort that made this conference a success!
Cloud Computing Conference 2009
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Mobile widgets
A Vodafone R&D Group (Betavine) launched a Widget Competition. The interesting think about this competition is that is launched by a global telecommunication operator and not by a mobile phone manufacture insuring a larger reach for the technology they are using (at this time it works in several Nokia phones and also in a Samsung model). Also a developer just needs to know client side languages like Javascript to build widgets.
See here how to create a widget (from thinkvitamin).
Jason Fried Interview
One of the Cloud players that I follow is 37 signals, not just because they developed a great web framework (Rails) and have simple yet powerful applications (Basecamp, Highrise, etc.) built on top of it, but also because they are independent thinkers with a different vision on several topics. I’ve read the recent interview that Jason Fried gave to O’Reilly and found the following interesting thoughts:
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Interesting stuff (articles that I’ve read)
I’ve read recently several articles about Cloud Computing that I would like to share in this blog:
Start your company with a credit card and a cloud: An article showing what a small company (JumpBox) is doing. Basically they sell “pre-built, pre-configured [Open Source] software applications packaged for deployment on virtual computing platforms.” that a small company can use. As the article author says “My little notebook computer has enough power to run a business – if I could just get the support and the apps to do it.”.
Coghead post-mortem
The recent close down of Coghead shows us several problems that cloud players will face, because situations like this will create distrust between current and potential users of the cloud.
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