OnDemand Speed Links 28 October 2009

Amazon Launches Relational Database Service
Amazon this week launched its Relational Database Service.(RDS) Amazon RDS is a MYSQL 5.1 database offering that will compete directly with Joyent’s recently announced MySQL Accelerator and indirectly (but not at an enterprise level) with Microsoft SQL Azure.

Cloud Wars Begin
Amazon also announced a 15% drop in pricing for all EC2 instance families and sizes. This is significant due to the fact that one can expect EC2 competitors like GoGrid and Softlayer to follow suit and lower pricing as well.

Stephen Baker Researches Enterprise 2.0 Consulting
Over on BusinessWeek; Stephen Baker is creating a few articles on Enterprise 2.0 Consulting. Will be interesting to see whether his research indicates that Enterprise 2.0 consulting is a viable industry or more of the sometimes dubious Social Media consulting with an Enterprise twist.

W3C announces OWL2
The Semantic Web group within W3C released the OWL2 recommendation. OWL2 is part of the W3C’s Semantic Web Toolkit and is a standard for representing knowledge on the Web.

OnDemand Speed Links 29 September 2009

GSA launches Apps.Gov
The General Services Administration has launched the long awaited Apps.Gov site. Intended as a one stop shop for US government agencies keen on getting into the cloud, the site lists vendor provided Social Media, Business, Productivity and IT Services applications.

Are Washington Post’s Policies A Sign of The Future?
The Washington Post’s draconian Social Media Policy for its staffers has raised the question of whether strict Social Media Guidelines will become the norm in corporate America.

Practical Web 3.0 Applications
An interesting listing of 13 useful Semantic Web application over on ThoughtPick

Is this the Best Enterprise 2.0 Definition?
Bill Ives has posted what is probably the best Enterprise 2.0 definition I have seen to date. Now it will be up to a vendor to actually sell Enterprise 2.0 solutions to a customer with this definition.

Ed Yourdon On Enterprise 2.0

Although Ed’s slideshare presentation does not follow Guy Kawasaki’s 10 20 30 rule (With the key difference being that Ed definitely knows what he is talking about) this is nonetheless an excellent “State of the Union” presentation on Enterprise 2.0.

To experience the full benefit of Ed’s presentation I would highly recommend downloading the actual Adobe .pdf that has extensive hyperlinks to topics Ed covers in the presentation.

But be forewarned that the pdf is a 35 MB download

OnDemand Speed Links 28 April 2009

Are Cloud Computing Security Standards More Than an Afterthought?
Good Article on CIO.com that talks about the nascent efforts on developing cloud computing security standards.

What is Cloud Computing ?? What ISN’T cloud computing??
If you can skip past the marketing in the article,you will find one of the better definitions of Cloud Computing.

Enterprise 2.0 and Blogging should be First Practiced In House
Gil Yehuda captures a few good reasons why Blogging and Enterprise 2.0 efforts should always be practiced behind the firewall prior to releasing content to a public stage.

Do Multi-Tenant Architecures Save Costs and Should Customers Care?
Sinclair Schuller; over on SaasBlogs, provides a few key counterpoints to the recent conversations amongst bloggers and analysts about the purported cost savings of Multi-Tenant Architectures.

Can The Semantic Web Be CrowdSourced?
Finding Semantic Metadata on the web is still extremely rare. To help further adoption of the Semantic Web Aleksander Kmetec proposes using Crowdsourcing methods to build the linked data cloud.