New in the Cloud

Matthew Glotzbach (Director, Product Management, Google Enterprise) listed 10 things that you could do in the clouds in 2009 that you couldn�t do the year before. Not surprisingly, he mostly talked about Google-related things, so his list is not complete. Still, Matthew�s list is a reminder of how far we�ve come in a short space of time.

1. Having access to everything on the go�through an iPhone an Android-based phone like Google�s Nexus One, a BlackBerry, or Apple�s new iPad.

2. Being able to search through all my e-mail quickly from any device using Gmail or Google Apps (see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190).

3. Chatting with customers and partners�in any language. Matthew gave a very cool live demo of inline translation of chat; my Web site, eyeonthecloud.com, implements a translate button provided by Google. Last I looked, it translates the site into 52 languages on request. You can do use it too; just copy this code snippet into your Web page:

<div id=�google_translate_element�></div><script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({
pageLanguage: �en�
}, �google_translate_element�);
}
</script><script src=�http://translate.google.com/
translate_a/
element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit�></script>

4. Easy collaboration with Google products Sites and Docs. (Lee Lefavre provides a great explanation of document sharing at http://www.masternewmedia.org/online_collaboration/document-collaboration/Google-Docs-explained-in-simple-words-by-Lee-Lefever-20070919.htm). Online collaboration has been a goal for years; it�s now coming of age.

5. Organizing travel using TripIt, a personal travel assistant (www.tripit.com/).

6. Easily collecting data from co-workers and customers using Google forms (see http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=15166).

7. Building a scalable business application on the cloud platform with Force.com (see www.salesforce.com/platform or http://developer.force.com/appengine) to create Web and business applications that span both salesforce.com and Google�s cloud computing platforms and take advantage of the key features of both.

8. Using online-templates for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

9. Running fast, secure, and stable Web apps (Chrome; see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html).

10. Securely sharing video in apps with Youtube for Google apps (see www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080902_video_in_apps.html).

Source of Information : Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications 2011