Now that we’re well into the second year of Scobleizer’s affiliation with the Web hoster, the time is ripe for RackSpace to take a giant step to differentiate itself from a formidable pack of competitors that includes Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Microsoft’s Azure and Google.
It may be a bit too “Inside Baseball”, but I can’t resist pointing to this post by Adam DuVander from Alcatel-Lucent’s latest acquisition, Programmable Web.
Over on Internet2Go.net, Greg Sterling provides great background and commentary regarding anew service from Google Labs called “App Inventor”.
Amid all the subterfuge surrounding Facebook’s fast-and-loose attitude toward privacy protection, it was nice to see someone taking a simplistic tack on one of the more vexing problem: helping individuals manage multiple IDs and sign-ons for Web services.
Microsoft reveals that Amazon.com is paying an undisclosed sum and entering an agreement by which each company provides “access to the other’s patent portfolio” which “covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon’s popular e-reading device, Kindle™”.
NextStop leverages HTML5 and mobile Safari, rather than the ‘native iPhone’ application environment to deliver new mobile service.