Most of the stuff you mentioned people are keeping an eye on (I know
that I am), but they're a bit early yet. The usefulness is not yet
established even for someone like me, who is a early adopter.
Bob La Quey wrote:
Mashups in general ... i.e. web services replace a lot
of general purpose programing and introduce a lot of
new problems.
http://www.programmableweb.com/
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.
AJAX, Just use Google to learn more.
Verdict is still out, IMO.
AJAX is basically a premature optimization for a lack of local storage
and bandwidth. If we actually had 10-base-T connections and browsers
could use the hard drive, then Javascript+Browser is equivalent to
App+Computer and AJAX really doesn't buy us anything.
I'm not particularly interested in twisting my brain for something that
is either A) likely to go away shortly or B) means the US gets left
behind on the web because bandwidth doesn't jump.
Amazon Web Services,
http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1_3435361_1/102-9997376-9108939?ie=UTF8&node=3435361&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA
Ummm, I'm kinda the person who brought that up originally. I also gave
a presenation a *long* time ago for the Python group about using Amazon
from Python (which, sadly, no longer works).
I have been tracking EC2 and S3. Until Amazon gets some latency
problems worked out, they're good for backup and that's about it.
Google's BigTable
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
Dunno. I guess I'll go look at it when I have something in the petabyte
range.
Instead of Asterisk look at Freeswitch
http://www.freeswitch.org/
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BTW, FreeSwitch runs on EC2 ... nuff said.
Not an area I'm particularly interested in right now, but I would expect
that Tracy keeps up with it.
In addition, EC2 has horrible latency and would be absolutely anathema
to something like FreeSwitch.
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