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Tim O’Reilly on Open Source and Cloud Computing

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Open Source, Web 2.0

Just read a very interesting article by Tim O’Reilly on ‘Open Source and Cloud Computing’
O’Reilly highlights the dangers of proprietary  ‘lock in’ to cloud computing service providers such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2, Google’s AppEngine and Salesforce’s force.com.
O’Reilly asks
Why did the WWW end up with hundreds of millions of independent information providers while centralized sites […]

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Del.icio.us Revamps its site and services

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Web 2.0

I see that top social bookmarking site Del.icio.us has recently launched a redesign of its website and services.

They have organized the site into three main sections: Bookmarks, People and Tags. When you are logged in, these menus give you quick access to your Bookmarks, Network and Tags pages. The My Tags page is a new […]

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