Mobile Web apps escape Apple’s iron grip
And if you’re interested in HTML5, check out these links:
So what does that mean for cloud computing? Not much. It only points out that, like anything else, the cloud is going to fail for stupid reasons. But that doesn’t mean it should be abandoned. What about air travel? Every now and then there’s a… No pun intended. Are we going to give up airplanes? No. They are safer than driving.
The same goes for the cloud. It’s probably safer than your data center.
But there are risks. And risks can be mitigated.
You’ve heard this a million times, but I’m going to tell you again. Back up your data. Get in the habit of pulling your data down from wherever it’s stored and make a copy. Got a lot of data? Get your IT department on it.
And here’s a radical suggestion. Define a data set of mission-critical files. Then back that data up to a jump drive and put it in your pocket. You can get a 128Gb jump drive for a hundred bucks. Do it.
Now sit down for this – You are responsible for your data. Not the cloud. Not Amazon. Not your IT department. Not your assistant. You.
Something like this will happen again.
You’ve been warned.
Dubbed, “a breathing space in a busy world. It is a place to take time out and consider what is happening and why it matters.
“Think Quarterly is a(n) unparalleled communications tool that bundles together some of the world’s leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses today,” the magazine says on its Twitter bio.
“Like most companies, Google constantly communicates with its business customers via email newsletters, updates on our official blogs, and printed materials,” Google writes on its site. “On this occasion, we have sent a short book about data, called Think Quarterly, to a small number of our UK partners and advertisers.”
Okay…
Pretty cool. More later…
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And from the looks of it, Google is right. Short story: Google set up a number of “synthetic” queries – basically nonsensical search terms that return results that have no relation to the search terms. Google Engineers entered those synthetic search terms into Google through IE. The same results showed up in Bing searches a couple of weeks later.
Read the Google Blog for a full explanation:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html
In a nutshell, it’s all related to the Bing Toolbar, Internet Explorer’s “Suggested Sites” feature, and Microsoft’s “Customer Experience Improvement Program.”
What does it all mean? That’s your call…
