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Googleholic for July 11, 2008


Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

  • Live blog with Google Docs
  • Google Mobile App for iPhone
  • App Engine Hack-a-thon in Chicago
  • Google Sites domain mapping
  • Google Notebook bookmarklet
  • Google News new design

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Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0

Googleholic for May 16, 2008

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:

  • A Googlepedia for web developers
  • App Engine launcher for Mac OS X
  • YouTube Insight now offers viewer demographics
  • Laser Google logo
  • The Rolling Stones respond to YouTubers questions

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Filed under: Developer, Internet, News, Web services, Google, Open Source, Beta, web 2.0

Google launches App Engine

Google has just announced the preview release of Google App Engine, which the company is describing as " an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure." Think of it like Amazon's web services, but as a fully integrated solution. With Amazon's services, developers can mix and match the various components with each other or with other solutions -- Google App Engine is a one-stop shop of sorts.

Most appealing, Google App Engine is free. During the preview, there are only spots for the first 10,000 developers who sign up, but Google's information page says that free accounts will be available after the initial preview. Of course, the free accounts do have resource limitations (500MB of storage and 5 million page views a month), but free is free!

Let's get into the details:
  • Applications can be served from the free appspot.com domain or from an external domain via Google Apps
  • Python is the only language supported right now -- Google says they look forward to supporting other languages in the future, but for right now -- Python is where it is at
  • Google's service API is built into App Engine -- so Google Accounts can be easily integrated into an application
  • During the developer preview users are able to register up to 3 applications
  • The SDK is available for Mac, Windows and Linux
From our perspective, this news is exciting -- if not for what it offers right now -- but for the potential in the future. Only initially supporting Python is a curious choice (though we are big fans of Django), but the ability for developers to execute scalable apps using Google's resources -- for free -- is extremely exciting.

[via TechCrunch]

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