Can Google Wallet schedule your weekly/monthly/periodic shopping list
for the following items from <your-regular-store>?
- <item-1> - <quantity>
- <item-2> - <quantity>
- ..
[Yes, schedule now] [No] [Change item-list and schedule]
..should be the eventual evolution of such a service.
Well, I guess my digi-wallet asking me if I want to order groceries is slightly less weird than my internet-fridge going ahead and doing it without asking.
Still, I'm not convinced that it makes sense for my 'wallet' to be doing this.
Requires nothing more than a Google/Google-Apps user account to get going.
You can define Entities ("table"/"sheets") and Attributes ("columns"/"fields") to get working with your database app within a few minutes.
Integrates with Google Contacts (import/upload), Google Docs (attach docs to database records), Google Maps (mark and search for records based on geographic location). Google Calendar (export events/tasks-like data) and email integration are coming up later.
- Authorization Profiles for fine grain access control up to field level.
- Custom Views to filter data matching your criteria.
- Custom Actions for single click edits.
- Automated Audit of all write operations
- Bulk Export & Import of data as CSV files.
- Support for drop-down choices,
look-up fields (references) and
image fields (with auto thumbnails for list view)
..and more.
For developers who need to provide mobile access to their hosted apps, this event makes it easy to decide on a path with regard to "Native apps / Web apps ?" question.
Except that as discussed, there are plenty of code execution flaws in mobile builds of webkit that will do just as well as any flaw in the native app API.
One XSS or SQL injection vuln in your webapp and your users could be just as rooted as the victims of this malware. Exactly like in the desktop browser world.
Seems Amazon wants to fight it out with Google, by matching the new services with Google App Engine's free quota.
$0.10 per thousand in SES -> $0.0001 per email recipient // Same as in GAE.
You can send 2,000 messages for free each day when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. // Same as in GAE.
This, along with the recent AWS Elastic Beanstalk release and Amazon's intent of making Java hosting easy and without restrictions (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119104) all point to the day when I will be able to upload my Python app on GAE directly onto a pre-configured Amazon service (possibly making use of AppScale or TyphoonAE), which internally uses all these new services with free quotas.
I actually doubt that they really care about competing with Google App Engine. I mean, AWS has NetFlix, New York Times, Dropbox among their customers and GAE has.... who?
What I do think is that services like GAE have set a standard for the ease of use and price. People are now looking for free tiers, instant deployment, and traffic-based pricing. Customers are expecting Amazon to provide the same and so they do.
To add to it, it is not that I want to switch from GAE to AWS now. But, to know that it will be easier in case I need to, makes it good news.
I also believe competition which facilitates such migrations not only validates the space and the standard (write for GAE, you can host it on Google or on AWS), but also helps drive innovation and service levels.
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