Amazon Launches Hosted MySQL Database Cloud Service

A nice pricelist from TechCrunch:

Name Memory Comp Price per hour:

• Small DB Instance 1.7 GB 1 ECU $0.11 USD
• Large DB Instance 7.5 GB 4 ECUs $0.44 USD
• Extra Large DB Instance 15 GB 8 ECUs $0.88 USD
• Double Extra Large DB Instance 34 GB 13 ECUs $1.55 USD
• Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance 68 GB 26 ECUs $3.10 USD

in reference to:

- Amazon Launches Hosted MySQL Database Cloud Service (view on Google Sidewiki)

GPS on top of search engine

Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch writes about Google GPS and Apple. And his gives the reason why the existing GPS providers doesn't stand a change - Google GPS are buildt on its search engine!
Navigation apps are a key category for mobile phones, and the iPhone is for once at a disadvantage here. Even the paid navigation apps in the iTunes store can’t compete because Google’s new navigation app is an extension (albeit a customized one) of its search engine. When a navigation app becomes an interface to Google’s massive search engine, it begins to deliver things that GPS app developers like Garmin and TomTom will never be able to build (search along a route, natural language search). Oh yeah, and did I mention it is free?

in reference to:

"Erick Schonfeld"
- Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation (view on Google Sidewiki)

Skanning av bilag - med iPhone

Shoeboxed lar deg ta bilde av kvitteringen. Den blir så lastet opp og OCR behandlet, og du får den tilbake som en importfil til ditt regnskapsprogram.

in reference to: App of the Week - Shoeboxed Makes Quick Work of Receipts - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Revolusjonen ligger i brukeropplevelsen

...“det neste store” ... "at revolusjonen ligger i brukeropplevelsen og ikke i teknologien."

Eirik Solheim i NRKbeta skriver videre:


Tanken er ikke på noen måte ny. Og når jeg titter tilbake skrev jeg om dette på min egen blogg en gang i 2006. Med følgende refleksjon:

Ingeniøren tror det kommer til å slå an bare fordi det er mulig
Økonomen tror det slår an bare det blir billig nok
Markedsføringsavdelingen tror det kommer til å slå an bare de får slengt ut nok reklame
Men få tjenester slår an før de er tydelige og brukervennlige nok.

in reference to:- Revolusjonen ligger i brukeropplevelsen (view on Google Sidewiki)

Cloud Computing - Amazon fire back at Microsoft

VisualStudio reports that Amazon will be hosting MySQL in its Cloud. Commenting the prices the said:
Amazon's pricing move establishes a price ceiling for Windows hosting, said Jeffrey McManus, CEO of consultancy Platform Associates, in an e-mail. "Very few hosting providers are going to price their offerings higher than that of EC2," McManus said.

in reference to:

"Amazon's pricing move establishes a price ceiling for Windows hosting, said Jeffrey McManus, CEO of consultancy Platform Associates, in an e-mail. "Very few hosting providers are going to price their offerings higher than that of EC2," McManus said."
- Amazon Sets Stage for Cloud Battle With Microsoft -- Visual Studio Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)

SQL Azure Team Blog : Updated CTP for SQL Azure Database includes complete feature set for PDC 2009!

New version of SQL Azure. New locations, new commands... The CTP is featurecomplete for PDC in November.

SQL Azure Team Blog : Updated CTP for SQL Azure Database includes complete feature set for PDC 2009!

Screencast – What’s new in the Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 : Don't Be Iffy

The life of programming is just getting a lot easier ;-)
Screencast – What’s new in the Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 : Don't Be Iffy

Silverlight på iPhone - det er spørsmålet!

Det vi mangler i prosjektet vårt er iPhone programmeringskompetanse. Men det er små hint der ute at vi kanskje ikke trenger dette. Hvertfall ikke med en gang. Scott Gurthie er sjef av sjefer i utvikling i Microsoft og han sa:
"Expect to see Microsoft putting Sliverlight on as many mobile devices as possible, not just Windows Mobile devices…. *pause*… anything with an SDK."
Vi knytter fingre...l

in reference to:

"Expect to see Microsoft putting Sliverlight on as many mobile devices as possible, not just Windows Mobile devices…. *pause*… anything with an SDK."
- Scott Guthrie Hints At Silverlight On iPhone at Simon’s Blog (view on Google Sidewiki)

Plan for RIA Services drops at PDC 2009 / drops for VS 2010 Beta2 : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

The new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 make us to take a lot of caution: our favourite feauture .net RIA services, will not work with VS10 until the RTW which are expected between November and March.
Plan for RIA Services drops at PDC 2009 / drops for VS 2010 Beta2 : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

Silverlight and ViewModel meet F# | DavideZordan.net

Davide Zordan, who is an MVP, wrote:

Many MVVM implementations are available on the net, personally I love the approach used by Laurent Bugnion in the MVVM Light toolkit and Michael Sync in the Silverlight MVVM toolkit (Jeremiah Morril have posted a great article about this pattern, don’t forget to read it here).

All these examples use C#, what about F# for describing ViewModel classes? F# is a very powerful and readable language and permits to perform operations using a small amount of code. Last, but not least, at this time it’s a first citizen .NET language and can be easily used in Silverlight applications as well.

More on Silverlight and ViewModel meet F# | DavideZordan.net

Blendable MVVM : Introduction and Databinding . Blog . Compiled Experience . Silverlight Development

Blendable MVVM : Introduction and Databinding . Blog . Compiled Experience . Silverlight Development
A strange header. I will explain it. Blendable is usable in Expression Blend. MVVM is a variant of Model-View-Controller pattern. The article seems througout.

Confusing menus and links: the web's biggest challenge

Berrt McGovern does every sunday come up with nice observations and strategy about web sites. This week he says:

Menus and links need to be designed in the context of the task the customer is trying to complete. That means stripping away higher-level options and creating links that point forward based on the task at hand.

in reference to:

"Confusing menus and links: the web's biggest challenge"
- Confusing menus and links: the web's biggest challenge (view on Google Sidewiki)

Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy

Bred artikkel om Microsofts tilstand innenfor high-tech og hva fremtiden vill bringe. NYT spiller hele tiden på et ordspill om "Cloudy forecast" og "Cloud Compueting". God gjennomgang av IT-bransjens ledende aktører!

in reference to:

"Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy"
- Microsoft’s Future, Beyond Windows 7 and the PC - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013

As we noted last year, IT cloud services adoption is currently in the “crossing the chasm” stage. This revenue and growth data is very much in sync with this view. As Geoffrey Moore pointed out, in this period, total revenues are small, but – as the market is on the steep part of the adoption curve – growth is extremely high. The lesson of past technology adoption waves is that suppliers who wait to position themselves until revenues get big (e.g., greater than 10%), are too late, and find themselves edged out of the all-important mainstream adoption phase.

in reference to: IDC eXchange » Blog Archive » IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013 (view on Google Sidewiki)

De tre lovene om tilgjengelig offentlig informasjon:

1. Hvis det ikke kan bli indeksert, finnes det ikke
2. Hvis det ikke er tilgjengelig i et åpent ,maskinlesbart format, kan det ikke engasjere
3. Hvis det ikke er lov å bruke det fritt, gir det ikke makt til brukerne

in reference to: The Three Laws of Open Government Data | eaves.ca (view on Google Sidewiki)

Microsoft Dynamics NAV heads toward social apps

"As they use more of their internal tools such as Silverlight, SQL Server Reporting Services and Windows Workflow Foundation, they will be able to move towards more social, connected enterprise-class apps," Wang said. "Continued investment in dynamic user experiences, business process, and community connectedness will give Microsoft Dynamics a head start towards the development of more Social Enterprise Apps."

in reference to:

"particularly"
- SP1 Adds Improvements to Dynamics NAV 2009 -- Visual Studio Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)

Regnskapsprogrammet Outright gjør mye riktig

PCMag er svært fornøyd med dette amerikasnske regnskapsprogrogrammet. En amerikansk SMS uten ansatte skal kunne klare seg med 29 min. i mnd. Dette vil firmaet ha ned til 15 min.
Outright henter banktransaksjoner og fakturaer fra Freshbook og Shoeboxed.
in reference to: Outright (September 2009) - Full Review - Reviews by PC Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)