Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google has opened its application hosting platform, Google App Engine, for all. Now, anyone can build a web application with the in-built Python IDE and deploy applications on Google’s own infrastructure which is highly scalable and reliable. When Google App Engine was launched, I had written a detailed post on what you need to know [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

iGoogle, the Start Page service from Google, is slowly turning into a platform for building social and commercial applications. In March, Airtel had partnered with Google to launch Airtel Live, built on top of iGoogle. Further, Google added the facility to share and collaborate on Google Gadgets through iGoogle start page. Today, Google has announced [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Google has announced the launch of Google Apps Engine which will let the developers deploy and run their web applications on Google’s own infrastructure. In essence, Google is offering a collection of services which directly compete with the ones provided by Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2 and SimpleDB) barring the flexibility provided by AWS in [...]