Nice interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/share.html?s=news01s2c18qa51
Nice interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/share.html?s=news01s2c18qa51
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In a conversation I had yesterday about "working in the cloud" somebody asked me which tools I use online. I sent him an e-mail this morning with the list but I'd also like it to share it online with you.
Project/Customer Management
Project Management: www.basecamphq.com
CRM: www.highrisehq.com
Functional Specifications, Wireframes and Designs: www.protoshare.com
Technical / website related:
Issue Management: www.lighthouseapp.com
Technical issue traching: www.hoptoadapp.com
Server Monitoring: www.newrelic.com
Source code control: www.github.com
Other
Brainstorm: www.mindmeister.com
Sporadic photo editing: www.pixlr.com
Google-apps for: e-mail, docs, calendar
File and document sharing: www.drop.io
RSS: Google Reader
Blogging: www.typepad.com
Hosting
www.heroku.com
www.railsmachine.com
www.byte.nl
Amazon S3
Other Services
Twitter: @sparkboxx
Facebook: wilcovd
LinkedIn
The ultimate glue, so that I don't forget all the urls: www.dnsmadeeasy.com to connect most services under records like http://[application].sparkboxx.com
On the topic of "hosting" in the cloud I recommend 2 video's:
Presentatie on Amazon web services:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/amazon-web-services
Amazon Cloud Hosting for rails Applications. It's a pretty techy video, but it does illustrate how you can "think differently" using cloud services for hosting on any platform. http://pivotallabs.com/talks/40-engine-yard-solo
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I'm making the move into the cloud.
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And this is why I started studying Transaction Costs in Software Ecosystems about 1 year ago:
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Nice Video Presentation from Qcon:
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I had to build a small "wedding" website for a family member and decided to fool around a bit with the google data APIs, more specifically the Spreadsheet API. In order to manage the visitors list. After a couple of hours of fooling around I can say that it works :-)
The ability to connect all Google tools on the back-end makes me think of nice mash-ups. I wonder when the first "Export to Google" features will start appearing at most CMSs.
Some guidance to help fellow rubyists in getting started:
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gsx="http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006/extended">
<gsx:name>#{self.name}</gsx:name>
<gsx:email>#{self.email}</gsx:email>
</entry>
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I made a MindMeister mindmap today as preparations for a Prezi.com presentation. It's great product! Fast and real easy to start.
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Software Monoliths are sooo 1980's!! But still Oracle is aiming to provide customers with a monolithic stack. Even though my study of Transaction Cost Economics might give some explanation I still think the move of software monoliths in the 80's to software ecosystems right now is way stronger than any reason to become the new IBM Monolith.
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Twitter seems to have started with some ads on the website. While I do get the idea it brings back a discussion I had the other day about possible business models for Twitter. Besides possible "business accounts" I expect Twitter to enter the micropayment circuit.
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