5 posts and columns on App Engine

Google, Salesforce.com: Love Is in the Air

in News on December 8, 2008 at 4:01 pm PT

“We love everybody,” Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff said recently. “We even love Microsoft…. This is our core strategy, love.” Yes, the SAAS enterprise applications vendor loves everyone, but none more than Google.

Developers, Start Your App Engines

in News on April 8, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Hmmm … Where Have I Seen Huddle Chat Before?

in News on April 8, 2008 at 5:57 am PT

Boy, Huddle Chat, currently the “Featured Application” on Google’s (GOOG) new App Engine page, sure looks familiar. Where have I seen it before? Thinking… thinking… Oh, I know! Campfire! “The layout is the same, the tabs at the top of the screen are the same, the right-side sidebar listing participants and file uploads is the [...]

New From Google: Google Acquisition Engine

in News on April 8, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Here’s a clever way of streamlining the acquisition process: Become a platform-as-a-service provider and encourage developers to create Web applications using your proprietary database and your APIs (application programming interfaces). That seems to be what Google (GOOG) has done with App Engine, a new service for developers who’d like to write and run their Web [...]