Comments on: Squawk Box April 9 - Google App Engine, and Skype’s Carterfone application http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/09/squawk-box-april-9-google-app-engine-and-skypes-carterfone-application/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:02:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jason http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/09/squawk-box-april-9-google-app-engine-and-skypes-carterfone-application/#comment-695214 Jason Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:02:07 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/09/squawk-box-april-9-google-app-engine-and-skypes-carterfone-application/#comment-695214 I think that Google has just shaken up the small web hosting market. It's the 500MB, 10G/day for free part. How hard is it to write a little python application that serves up web pages? Google will win the market simply because they already have a relationship with these people. Everyone has experience with bad hosts... I went with Amazon because it was a single click to sign up and get started. Now with Google, it will be just as easy, and FREE! I think that Google has just shaken up the small web hosting market.

It’s the 500MB, 10G/day for free part.

How hard is it to write a little python application that serves up web pages?

Google will win the market simply because they already have a relationship with these people. Everyone has experience with bad hosts… I went with Amazon because it was a single click to sign up and get started. Now with Google, it will be just as easy, and FREE!

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/09/squawk-box-april-9-google-app-engine-and-skypes-carterfone-application/#comment-694779 Jim Courtney Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:17:19 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/09/squawk-box-april-9-google-app-engine-and-skypes-carterfone-application/#comment-694779 I attended a Google presentation this monrning at IT360 in Toronto. It would be more appropriate if they had mockingly referred to Google as CloudNet since the theme of the presentation was "Cloud Computing". I attended a Google presentation this monrning at IT360 in Toronto. It would be more appropriate if they had mockingly referred to Google as CloudNet since the theme of the presentation was “Cloud Computing”.

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