Heroku launches its own cloud service for Ruby
Heroku is all set to take on Google by offering its own cloud service for Ruby applications.
This service would be somewhat similar to Google App Engine which also provides provisionless Web hosting.
Heroku is using the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services for their platform.
The company said [...]

Google App Engine updated with more powers and features
Google has updated their App Engine platform to make it more capable.
Google representative Rajen Sheth said in a statement that they want to make it possible for companies to host software applications in Google’s data centers.
This can be made possible while allowing the companies to [...]

Google Blog Converters platform launched
Search engine giant Google has launched a new innovative platform named Google Blog Converters.
This service is hosted on the Google Code platform.
It is designed to enable the user to move his blog from one blogging platform to another.
The service supports the popular blogging platforms including LiveJournal, MovableType, WordPress, [...]

Force.com now connected to Google App Engine
Salesforce.com has announced that they are now connecting their Force.com development platform with Google App Engine.
This arrangement is similar to how they connected their services to Amazon Web Services.
Google App Engine however is still in testing phase as it enables the web developers to easily build scalable [...]

Google Moderator web service launched
A Google Engineer has used his 20% time at the office to develop this new web service named Google Moderator.
It is powered by the company’s Google App Engine and is available for free usage.
The development of this tool was started for use internally in the company. It is designed to let [...]

Appcelerator Platform now support Google App Engine

Appcelerator has announced that they are now supporting the recently launched Google App Engine.
The company said that the applications developed using their Appcelerator Platform can now be deployed to the Google App Engine service.
The platform is open source and is used to develop rich Internet applications.
Jeff Haynie, co-founder [...]

Google moving Jaiku to Google App Engine
The developers behind the Twitter rival service Jaiku have revealed that they are now moving the service to Google App Engine.
Jaiku said in a blog post that they aim to become one of the major applications to be powered by this platform which was just recently announced.
Google App Engine [...]

HuddleChat: Google App Engine based chatting engine
Huddle Chat is one of the first applications to be developed on the Google App Engine.
This web based service is essentially an online platform to discuss ideas within a group.
People can chat using this service in real time and share content such as code, media files, links etc.
The service [...]