Basically, GAE is a Google-hosted platform that can run applications written in Python. (Other languages â" such as PHP, Java and Ruby â" are being considered.) With the downloadable software development kit (SDK) and a copy of the Python runtime, you develop your application on a local machine and then upload it to Google. Google will run the app and worry about bandwidth, CPU and storage issues. Google provides a dashboard that allows you to keep track of how often the application runs.
everyone else's textbooks. Texas is such a big state that they serve as a de facto standard for textbook companies. If you don't ask your local school board, books written for Texas are likely to show up in your system. How many at Slashdot have ever asked their local school system how, or even if, science in taught in their school system?
If the traditional media got off its ass, and started selling its own online ad space to it's local advertisers, then they would be able to command much higher prices and much better ads.
You are sooooooo right. If these news empires developed their own version of paid search, or better yet, bought one of the small companies working on it, they would be sooooooo much more profitable. And also their own internal version of doubleclick, without the privacy invasion and with better return on dollar to the news organization in question. So frustrating. It didn't have to get this bad.
I sympathize, but I think the answer is to do a better job of marketing online advertising and simply charging more for it. Broadcast TV is "free", yet broadcast airtime is very expensive. Well, we need to charge more for online advertising. That means explaining how online advertising builds reputation and brand prestige, even when readers don't click on the ads. That is very difficult to do in a down economy, but this is the future of paying for quality journalism. Also, we need more Joshua Micah Marshalls, entrepreneurs more interesting in reporting news than stock options.
companies like Experian and Acxiom have been mining your every credit card and club card purchase, among many other things (they can even tell you if a given person's current vehicle lease is about to expire), for *years*.
True, but they don't know which news stories I am monitoring thru Google News Alerts, or what terms I am searching on, or which address I am asking directions for, nor can they combine that information. Google's ability to aggregate data is truly staggering.
The only thing I can suggest is do things to raise the profile of anything connected to the real you, so that your work rises to the top of any Google search.
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I had the same reaction, and I think you are right about the necessity of Internet service in today's economy.
everyone else's textbooks. Texas is such a big state that they serve as a de facto standard for textbook companies. If you don't ask your local school board, books written for Texas are likely to show up in your system. How many at Slashdot have ever asked their local school system how, or even if, science in taught in their school system?
is this just a way to through Jaiku into the open in the hopes that a community will adopt it like a free puppy?
the open source movement needs to be active on standards bodies. Standards selection is vendor selection.
I will be interested to see how sue your customer works for them.
I will be interested to see where this goes.
Congrats on being the first comment to offer a constructive suggestion.
Oh yeah, let's have competing groups pirating the air waves, that will make everything better.
not sarcastic, there for emphasis.
If the traditional media got off its ass, and started selling its own online ad space to it's local advertisers, then they would be able to command much higher prices and much better ads. You are sooooooo right. If these news empires developed their own version of paid search, or better yet, bought one of the small companies working on it, they would be sooooooo much more profitable. And also their own internal version of doubleclick, without the privacy invasion and with better return on dollar to the news organization in question. So frustrating. It didn't have to get this bad.
I sympathize, but I think the answer is to do a better job of marketing online advertising and simply charging more for it. Broadcast TV is "free", yet broadcast airtime is very expensive. Well, we need to charge more for online advertising. That means explaining how online advertising builds reputation and brand prestige, even when readers don't click on the ads. That is very difficult to do in a down economy, but this is the future of paying for quality journalism. Also, we need more Joshua Micah Marshalls, entrepreneurs more interesting in reporting news than stock options.
Democrats just want to destroy companies
companies like Experian and Acxiom have been mining your every credit card and club card purchase, among many other things (they can even tell you if a given person's current vehicle lease is about to expire), for *years*. True, but they don't know which news stories I am monitoring thru Google News Alerts, or what terms I am searching on, or which address I am asking directions for, nor can they combine that information. Google's ability to aggregate data is truly staggering.
Google's ability to combine search data from maps, Google Earth, Web Search, Google News Alerts, etc, and mine it is a much bigger problem.
Shake down marketing, in desperate times men do desperate things.
you may be right on the other hand it would put his name and pedophile in the same result.
The only thing I can suggest is do things to raise the profile of anything connected to the real you, so that your work rises to the top of any Google search.
so I'm out of date, so sue me.
Why would anyone use Microsoft Exchange?
another step forward for Open Source and a sign that Microsoft can adapt.
does not require users to give up their data stores or business logic. If they hire a systems integrator to write their application, they can own it rather than license it.
Maybe a Wheaton Terrier, they don't shed as much.
They had a blog about it
if people began to believe that not anything goes on an Internet discussion board.