July 19, 2009 at 6:32 pm
· Filed under cloud, innovation, twitter, web2.0
I discussed the subject with one of colleagues who is a Cloud Computing architect. I’m logging what my comment here
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To continue our previous talk is a huge discussion. I’d recommend you could start to get involved in http://twitter.com and follow
http://twitter.com/mashable
http://twitter.com/j3ffyang -> me
http://twitter.com/OpenIBM -> I own this too as of being admin for IBM Open Source Global community
When you hit any of above, you can see the bytes come from http://aws.amazon.com actually, which is an IaaS with no doubt. Twitter is a kind of social collaboration network -> an application running over Amazon Web Services (AWS). Twitter doesn’t own any hardware resources. Whenever Twitter needs computing capability, it goes to AWS and AWS fulfills its request… on demand. Even though Twitter sometimes out of service due to its overload.
@ IaaS, AWS not only gives power of hardware (CPU, memory, disk and network…), but also provides plugin / API to connect Twitter with Hadoop… and Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Simple Database (SDB).
You shouldn’t be surprised @ Twitter’s power to gather thousand of thousand developers around it, if keeping our eyes open. (Some reasons of the motivation of social collaboration in term of Web2.0). See these:
http://tweetwheel.com
http://ftags.com
http://tweetvalue.com/
http://www.tweetizen.com/
http://twittersnooze.com/
http://mrtweet.net/home/j3ffyang
http://tweettrail.com/search/hadoop
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This list is almost endless. They’re all independent of twitter.com. The above are all SaaS, plugable into Twitter.com where provides API -> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ and http://twitter.com/downloads – @ PaaS
This is an ecosystem.
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June 6, 2009 at 8:16 am
· Filed under innovation, social network, twitter, web2.0
Collaboration cross firewall: I started to get involved in a Cloud project and had to travel to Shanghai every week in past one month. While out of my office during trip, or boarding @ airport, or sitting in cab, I’m out of the company firewall! That means I can’t access BlogCentral. My brain must “stop” in front of firewall. If I want to keep it thinking, I’d switch to public Web2.0 places.
Ease of combination: Have you used Ping.fm ? Or you may ask what Ping.fm is? In short, it’s a hub of collaboration and a practice of innovation. Let’s see a scenario: In a cab, I see a scene. I capture a photo by using my Nokia E71 smartphone (iPhone works too). After shooting, a small icon of mail prompts. Click mail icon, I’m in mail mode with the capture picture as an attachment. I pick an email address from contact list. Such email address is like vfr45t@ping.fm that was randomly assigned by Ping.fm . Whatever message sent to such account will automatically be updated into my accounts @ Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, MySpace, Blogger, Identi.ca, WordPress, Flickr, FriendFeed, Mashable, etc, you name it… All these could be finished within one minute. (Security is another topic though. I’d very carefully post the data in this very web2.0 way.)
Performance: WordPress is good. Working on company’s BlogCentral is a challenge. I lean to write @ twitter.com as I’m lazy and don’t have to write much 
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March 4, 2009 at 12:51 am
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March 2, 2009 at 12:48 am
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