Google, something for everything

So, google can now host your web apps. This means that Google now hosts my: email, calendar, IM, documents, spreadsheets, photos and blog. I don't visit people's sites to read their blogs, I see it all through Google reader. Shortly most of my web sites / services will be hosted at google, using App Engine on the back end and Gears on the front. I use Maps for finding places and phone numbers, Transit to get around, and search to find anything...
Can anyone say Skynet?

Cheers,
Andy.
[Google Citizen 51348]

Sent to you by Andy L via Google Reader:

Developers, start your engines

via Official Google Blog by Karen on 4/7/08

Posted by Kevin Gibbs, Tech Lead, Google App Engine

We just launched a preview release of Google App Engine, a way for developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure. In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it easy to create and run web applications.

With Google App Engine, developers can write web applications based on the same building blocks that Google uses, like GFS and Bigtable. Google App Engine packages those building blocks and provides access to scalable infrastructure that we hope will make it easier for developers to scale their applications automatically as they grow. This means they can spend less time dealing with system administration and maintenance, and more time building and improving their applications. (There's more detail on the new App Engine Blog.)

Google App Engine is free to use during the preview release, but the amount of computing resources any app can use is limited. In the future, developers will be able to purchase additional computing resources as needed, but Google App Engine will always be free to get started.

Today's launch is a preview release. We've got a lot left to do, and there are a lot of features we still want to add to the system. What we'd really like is to get your feedback on it, so we know which features are most important to you. We'll use your suggestions to keep improving the system.

This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000 developers who sign up; we will increase that number in near future. So, developers, please sign up, download the SDK, and start your engines.

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