Bob La Quey wrote:
On 4/4/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mashups don't excite me. They can be useful, but they are ultimately
parasitic. They sponge off of the resources of others.
I'm not a big fan of that.
Not really. You could say the same thing about the Internet.
It is just that at a higher level. Uses computing as well as
communications though.
Maybe back in th Bad Old Days, but not anymore. I pay for my connection
to the Internet. Those ISP's pay to the backbone providers.
email sponges off the resources of others, etc. That is damn near
the main idea of the Internet.
In what way does email sponge off of others? I pay to send that email
through my bandwidth.
When email starts being parasitic, we call it spam and attempt to filter
it out.
Besides new economic models are there to take care of the
parasitism. I don't see Google suffering. Do you?
And they are the *only* one I see earning any money. I see no new
economic models yet. I see only ads. Or, more appropriately, I *don't*
see any ads due to ad blocking.
In addition, if 100 million people per day started using Google maps
bandwidth via a mashup without hitting the ads, Google would pull the
plug pretty quick.
Portability, access from any terminal. For example, gmail is turning
out to be a
big win for me. Beats the hell out of previous local mail client.s for me,
especially when I travel.
I don't want access from any terminal. I want access from *my*
terminal, but I want my terminal always with me. I want *my* stuff *my*
way no matter what with no compromise.
I echo Stewart's sentiments that I want my laptop in a cellphone form
factor except when I want to open it and use it.
latency on pipes between EC2 instances or storage latency.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Amazon has been exhibiting widely variable latencies and bandwidths to
any endpoint under their control. Several companies pulled back from
using EC2 as primary compute or S3 as primary storage because of that.
They have adjusted to use S3 as effectively a fast, online backup that
holds data that they might need, but don't have to get to very fast.
Do you have numbers or a reference? I would like to know.
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-slowdowns-and-problems/
Actually, his blog stuff isn't bad even if it's a bit cheerleady:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/
I guess I will have to go looking for latency and EC2.
I also saw something else, but I don't remember completely. I was
looking at doing some streaming from EC2 but found some latency numbers
that kinda sucked.
-a
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