Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere!
Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
It s Web News Monday and here s what s shaping our Web world this week.
Google launched its Apps Engine web hosting service putting it in direct competition with Amazon s web services. If you are considering taking advantage of the new Google App Engine service, listen up because we have a few great links to some serious bloggers that are covering the story.
What Is Google App Engine?
According to Google, the Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it’s ready to serve your users.
You can serve your app using a free domain name on the appspot.com domain, or use Google Apps to serve it from your own domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization.
WOW, you gotta luv Google, the App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account, and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see, at no charge and with no obligation.
All of that said, you may want to follow the link to EWeek and to Znet.com we have listed on the WOWTechMinute website for the rest of the story. Both blogs cites analyst and software experts that contrast Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services, while one reader questions both companies’ support.
Check out all the links and other great stories at the WOWTechMinute.com website. Thanks for listening and watching the WOW Technology Minute.
Today s links:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1002
For more info about the Google App check out:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html