Cloud Computing is a hot topic in todays IT forums, talks and research.I wanted to understand what a cloud can be from an outsiders point of view. So i went through few blogs and webpages to know what really is this Cloud. Even though i got few points, few were still inscrutable and undecipherable.
I would like to present here a small distinguishing or rather similarities between the Clouds and Restaurants here in India.
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Cloud VS Restaurant
Google Chrome OS..."The Future has Arrived"
The Wave of Google chrome is already setting sails in our minds. The Features that are being claimed by the new OS being developed by the Search giant Google, named after its browser chrome are just astonishing.
The announcement made 4 months back was to develop the Operating system that will enhance the way people surf and would allow to embrace the internet in a more easy way than the conventional operating systems. They have announced that chrome OS will have a faster booting ability. It predicts that the time taken for you to start browsing will be almost same as the time needed to switch on your TeleVision. Your internet reachability will be enhanced to this extent, you wont need to start all your programs to get to internet and it means you literally have a booting time of less than 5 seconds. It would be a milestone in the history of the operating systems.
Google said that "It's basically a Web browsing machine"and they added all data in Chrome OS will automatically be stored in the cloud, but also cached on the computer's internal hardware to boost performance. This OS will have to get rid of the usual desktop softwares such as the office suite of Microsoft for its faster performance and when google already have its google docs running online, it think it wont be a difficult task for them to host the applications on the servers and run them based on the requirements of an individual.
And with all the data synched on the cloud, its a winning move for google to conquer the search market and also increase its revenue. With the advent of Chrome OS it would mean that more google searches and more google ads tending to increased revenues and profits.
Google Fast Flip
Everyone who knows to use internet is aware of the term epaper. This is the scanned version of everyday newspaper. Whether it is politics or the sports or a simple column giving a quote in the newspaper... every inch of it is scanned and then posted for online news readers.
The question is whats next after this epaper. This is where the Google fast flip comes handy.
The newspaper scans contain images and text which needs a lot of bandwidth to open up. As everyone knows, not every article in the newspaper is important to everyone. So This google apps called the fast flip, just gives a preview of each headline which actually loads faster.We can actually read the headlines and skip through non-interesting articles. This Apps has partnered with Newyork Times and other newspapers, intially and more details on the google blog.
Its accesible at fastflip.googlelabs.com
Get Emails Without Revealing Your Email Address
We often come across situations wherein we want to receive a message by email but don't want to give out our email address; and think it would've been better if there was an alternate URL which can be shared in place of your email address. Well, whspr! is one such service where it creates a url from the email address that you provide. You just have to place the whspr! URL in place of your email address. This temporary URL would last for a minimum of one day and a maximum of 365 days (which means you can choose the number of days of its activity).
Google to buy twitter
After the talks of IBM buying SUN.... the next acquisition proposed by an unknown source is Google buying twitter....This could be a collaboration of the real time search engines, and the deal would go in the favour of both.
Twitter has a robust search engine that can pull out the information from their users profile.. efficiently,And google however are the leaders in the search industry. And if Twitter goes on increasing its popularity in this manner... it may be a threat to google...So Twitter's googlification might be a good option... when you can realize what will happen if twitter goes into the hands of google's rival yahoo or Microsoft....
And if twoogle would be the future of twitter, then the google's enormous computing power would be beneficial for twitter.
Well lets see what happens in the future....!!
Chat with a Stranger!
You chat with your friends, relatives, loved ones every day. How would it be to chat with a complete stranger? Omegle is a new and innovative service for meeting new friends. Once you enter chat, you will be connected to a random user. You would know nothing about the other person (and vice versa, as you would be a stranger to him/her). No registration! No sign ups. Just chat, right away. Of course, chats are anonymous. Well, sometimes it is interesting and sometimes it is irritating. Its a nice way to kill time though.
Gmail's Undo Mail Innovation!
Google Labs are at it again! The Official Gmail blog has revealed yet another new feature to their kitty. This time it’s Undo Send of the
Email you just sent. Say if you accidentally sent a ‘Love you’ mail to your ex or a Birthday wish which you intended to save as draft, no need to worry. You will now be allowed to Undo the action!
Mind you! this feature won’t recall an email that’s already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button. The message will be sent even if the connection is lost or you closed the browser.
To enable the Undo Send feature, turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and your message will be caught before it’s sent and take you right back to compose.
This will surely one of the few really useful features from the labs off-late. What YOU think of it?
Email you just sent. Say if you accidentally sent a ‘Love you’ mail to your ex or a Birthday wish which you intended to save as draft, no need to worry. You will now be allowed to Undo the action!
Mind you! this feature won’t recall an email that’s already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button. The message will be sent even if the connection is lost or you closed the browser.
To enable the Undo Send feature, turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and your message will be caught before it’s sent and take you right back to compose.
This will surely one of the few really useful features from the labs off-late. What YOU think of it?
