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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.

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

1. The end- user community @ twitter / bluetwit is HUGE. Go to http://twitter.com/mashable (who has more than 210,000+ followers. Imagine the impact from mashable.com on web. Unbelievable! In our community, how many followers do we have? Through email? Wiki?), follow several threads there, you could see how the info/ data flows over Internet smoothly and healthily.
2. The interaction/ collaboration @ twitter-like platform is tremendous rapid. The information/ data is tweeted by twitter people in second among Common Interest group, with passion and motivation to distribute and share such info/ data.
3. The shared data with tags is stored there always. How often does people search in email? People search in intranet and/ or on web. Tagged information/ data piled to grow to be a great repository available on intranet and/ or web for searching @ any time. Never been deleted. It’s always available there.

What we could start is to register and broadcast like http://twitter.com/developerWorks on Internet and Intranet!

I spent some time in researching Web2.0 and predicting Web3.0. Web3.0 gets me confused until I purchased a Nokia E71 two weeks ago. Let’s see some pictures captured from my E71

This is the main menu that doesn’t make much difference.

A Firefox like browser, with built- in Google search.

An all-in-one instant communication tool – Fring – that connects you in Skype, MSN, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, GoogleTalk and so on.

GoogleMaps tells where I live.

Wah, this is cool. A mobile Putty to connect my Linux machine. Perhaps it could become a console to manage Cloud from mobile device.

Built- in 802.1x encryption enables communication over Cisco LEAP Wifi

This is the screen of Wifi configuration covering WEP, WPA and 802.1x

All these is cool. All these is captured by ScreenShot. Have fun

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My comments and additional information >

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Zecco.com – Free online stock trading. Check their Community which contains Dashboard, Blog and Forums to collaborate

Prosper.com – Loaning at low rate. Check their Forum to hear of voice from developer, lender, borrower…

PredictWallStreet.com – you may enjoy to play game and contest in its community, where you can find an export to follow. And listen to how other members are saying. A latest list on August 21st shows a member – SilveRazor – made 389 predicts correct out of 586 evaluated. Cool!

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How it works?

Source: http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/04/tags-database-schemas.html

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In this solution, the schema has got just one table, it is denormalized.
This type is called “MySQLicious solution” because MySQLicious imports del.icio.us data into a table with this structure.

Intersection (AND)

Query for “search+webservice+semweb”:
SELECT *
FROM `delicious`
WHERE tags LIKE "%search%"
AND tags LIKE "%webservice%"
AND tags LIKE "%semweb%"

Union (OR)

Query for “search|webservice|semweb”:

SELECT *
FROM `delicious`
WHERE tags LIKE "%search%"
OR tags LIKE "%webservice%"
OR tags LIKE "%semweb%"

Minus

Query for “search+webservice-semweb”
SELECT *
FROM `delicious`
WHERE tags LIKE "%search%"
AND tags LIKE "%webservice%"
AND tags NOT LIKE "%semweb%"