2. Open Calais :Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

3. Tweetburner

4. fuseURL

5. http://dittes.info/blog/2008/06/04/presseclipping-20-twitter-monitor/

6. http://www.wefeelfine.org/   :  An exploration of human emotion

7. http://www.monitter.com/   Monitoring Twitter [could insert a definition/word in order to get the exact phrase ]

8. http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/  : aims to make all your Twitter experience as accessible as possible.

You can put your followers into groups, and save keyword searches. The drawback to Tweetdeck is that the timeframe is only 48 hrs, so aything after that can not be accessed. I still do think that TweetDeck is a break through act and is still in Beta so expect more to come.

9. http://hounder.org/index.html : Hounder is a simple and complete search system. Out of the box, Hounder crawls the web targeting only those documents of interest, and presents them through a simple search web page. Hounder is:

• configurable: Hounder can be customized for your particular needs. Use it as a standalone solution or as a building block for your existing application.
• scalable: Hounder grows with your needs. Start with a single machine, add more as needed.
• robust: The big bad web is no place for puppies. Hounder’s searcher has been designed from the beginning to survive traffic surges.
• easy to integrate: Hounder can be used from various languages, such as Java, PHP, Python, etc.
• trainable: point Hounder’s attention to the information you want by feeding it with training sets, then sit back and watch it fetch the right documents for you.

10. http://code.google.com/p/wiz4j/   :  Wiz4j offers a simple and rapid method to create wizards in java.

Its quick and easy, no need to create xml files: just use java code to define the wizard structure.

With wiz4j, your wizard will run both in GUI and command line mode.

11. http://tweetstats.com/trends

12. http://www.trackur.com/ : Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool designed to assist you in tracking what is said about you on the internet. Trackur scans hundreds of millions of web pages–including news, blogs, video, images, and forums–and lets you know if it discovers anything that matches the keywords that interest you.

13. http://www.twitscoop.com/about : Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter, the bigger

14 .

Amazon Web Services

Appnexus

AT&T

Flexiscale

HP

Parascale  

Q-layer

Rackspace

UniCluster Express in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)

http://www.johnmwillis.com/groundwork/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/:

Bungee Labs – Platform-as-a-Service

Kaavo

Hadoop (Open Source)

10gen

3leafsystems

 VISION: ELASTIC COMPUTING

Elastic Computing is an evolutionary concept that effectively harnesses the power of software and hardware computing resources available to today The creation of massive, scalable,internet-sized applications now becomes possible at a Total Cost of Ownership that is dramatically lowerthan any traditional data center, or hardware-only cloud-based deployment can achieve. Elastic Computing also aims to improve the application development life-cycle by proposing a methodic and disciplinedapproach to complex, heterogeneous system design and deployment. It allows applications to be developed more quickly and readily accommodate future change in policy and architecture. It engages the application developer to focus on building applications rather than spending his time specifying the underlying application platform.A Superset of Utility Computing
Elastic Computing not only leverages the value of Utility Computing, but also overcomes its shortfalls and thengoes beyond. In essence, Elastic Computing is a synthesis of evolutionary concepts that have emerged on the enterprise computing scene over decades prior, adding the missing components that are essential to fulfill the promise of a true on-demand application computing stack at pay-per-use prices. The resulting value of Elastic Computing is enormous. Key benefits include:

• Up and down scalability of both infrastructure software and hardware resources to manage the peaks and troughs that are typical of real-world application usage patterns. In addition, automated system deployment, scaling and monitoring of this infrastructure allows application developers and supporting IT personnel to focus on higher value-add areas within the application life-cycle.

• Decoupling the application design specification from the deployment specification to (a) drive best practices in system architecture and design, (b) enable experimentation with system design and testing as a  whole, (c) allow the application to leverage software improvements as they emerge, and (d) simplify support for versioning and application migration.

• On-demand utility pricing, which delivers a sensible approach to pricing that gives CPU, storage and bandwidth a normalized unit of measurement that incurs accumulative charges based on actual usage. The net result is that Elastic Computing delivers a seamlessly scalable application infrastructure stack that allows organizations of all sizes to quickly and easily plug their applications in to available Utility Computing environments on a pay-per-use basis.

DEFINITION:Elastic Computing is a business software model which combines new ways of designing, provisioning, scaling, and pricing both infrastructure software and the underlying hardware resources to speed-up and reduce the costs and complexity of the application development, deployment and management life-cycle. By combining infrastructure software and utility computing with new resource management and automation software, a complete, on-demand application infrastructure stack is created which can power dynamically-scalable software applications at pay-per-use prices.

Elastic Computing: The Next Generation of IT InfrastructureElastic Computing is an evolutionary idea whose time has not only come, but also has had to come as a result of major changes in the information technology environment. Picking up where Utility Computing leaves off, Elastic Computing empowers organizations to:Whether the infrastructure is for web-based application production environments, testing and QA environments, data warehousing, or internal productivity applications, new applications can be launched and optimized for today needs and expand to meet the variable and potentially uncertain loads in the future — to be scaled up AND down over time.

 • Manage the peaks and troughs of real-world application usage with up and down scalability of all resources

 • Automate system deployment, scaling and monitoring  Decouple the application system design and development process from the application deployment process

 • Use these utility environments for applications in a way that reflects real-world usage with on-demand, pay-per-use pricing With Elastic Computing, applications can expand and contract automatically based on required load, while minimizing both the human and computing resources consumed. Gone is the need for large capital and human resource investments to make the application software and hardware infrastructure available at-will. This means that the barrier to entry for building, deploying and maintaining applications is dramatically lowered, and remains lowered throughout the application life-cycle.

 Elastic Computing allows the real promise of utility environments to be fulfilled: buying resources in smaller, ondemand pieces is not sufficient. Organizations need to be able not only to buy resources in efficient, smaller pieces, but also to use them in a way that easily responds to elastic demand, without the burden of deploying, scaling and managing the complex environments in which these resources run.

 Industry-standard database and application infrastructure in the Cloud that is:

• Easily architected, configured and deployed in a complete, clustered, run-time environment
• Elastically scaled with automated system monitoring and management
• Priced pay-for-use
• Delivered on-demand

Provides companies building applications a way to radically innovate how they develop their products and deliver them on IT infrastructure. The customers shorten their application life-cycles, and bring better products to market more quickly and efficiently, while gaining better utilization of both infrastructure software and hardware. We enable our customers to do this by significantly simplifying and automating how they architect, deploy, manage and pay for their database and application infrastructure.

Hosting

The GridLayer (TGL) is a brand of Layered Technologies that delivers Virtual Private Datacenters and virtual private servers from grids of commodity servers.   TheGridLayer solutions allow hosting resellers, SAAS providers, Web 2.0 companies, small and medium businesses to enjoy the business-building benefits that come with top-notch hardware and transport usually reserved for large enterprises.

Since 1999, 1-800-HOSTING has been offering end-to-end hosting solutions for companies of all sizes and in all industries. Company’s mission is to provide innovative and reliable fully-managed and semi-managed dedicated hosting services combined with fast, competent and friendly technical support.

Agathon Group knows grid hosting. In addition to what you’d expect – decades of experience, world-class data centers, and a rock-solid network – Agathon Group offers a number of perks you won’t find anywhere else: the industry’s first AppLogic-based LAMP and Ruby applications; a flexible approach to designing your own application package; a true passion for what we do. And best of all, a real human being at the other end of every phone call.

Areti Internet Ltd. provides managed hosting solutions across the globe with data centers in London, GB, Manchester, GB and New York City, USA. The company offers flexible in our hosting solutions and will tailor its services according to customer’s needs.

Cleargrid offers clients in Singapore grid hosting solutions ranging from grid Virtual Servers and grid Virtual DataCenters to satisfy client’s demand for highly reliable hosting services. With Cleargrid innovative Infrastructure 2.0 service, hosting resellers, SaaS providers, Web 2.0 companies, small and medium businesses can now enjoy the business-building benefits that come with hardware and service usually reserved for large enterprises. Cleargrid is service by Clearmanage, Singapore, a provider of reliable, professional, enterprise-class hosting environments and engineering services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich media content.

DNS Europe Ltd is a pan-European IP communications business that offers clients across Europe services and solutions ranging from grid hosting, outsourcing, ISP systems integration to product development and constultancy. Headquartered in London (UK) with dedicated support resources in SE Europe, we provide secure, resilient data centre hosting through our partners Level(3), Interxion and EUnet.

Xseed Co., LTD provides high-level IT service using open source software. With more than 300 customers in Japan, Xseed offers hosting services and focuses on system integrators and distributors of mobile-content (music, picture, game and animation). Since august, 2008 Xseed delivers grid hosting service “myDC” based on AppLogic by 3tera targeting companies that need fast and easily scalable platform for applications.

     Net One Systems is Japan’s largest network integrator. The company is continually searching and scrutinizing most advanced technologies to provide highly reliable high value added comprehensive solutions that include consultation, designing, deployment and management services. This is made possible through Net One Systems’ technical center for technology research, quality control center for inspection of both incoming and outgoing products, and network academy for providing engineering education. As of June 2008 Net One Systems is AppLogicâ„¢ exclusive distributor for the Japanese market. 

      ENKI is a Managed Services Provider (MSP) that allow your company to focus on delivering value to your customers. The company offers and supports scalable Virtual Private Datacenters based on 3Tera’s groundbreaking AppLogic Grid Operating System. It offers full network monitoring with dashboard reporting, network design and build, bandwidth provisioning, network and applications security and performance consulting, and enterprise backup solutions. ENKI’s premiere product, the Computing Utilityâ„¢ , wraps these services into a single one-stop solution for businesses who need the performance and flexibility of their own build-to-order (BTO) data center. 

      Founded in 1991, EnterpriseWizard Inc is the leading vendor of adaptive Support, Change Management, Asset Tracking and Sales Automation solutions. The company’s outstanding success rate for on-time, on-budget deployments has attracted thousands of customers, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. With it’s uniquely adaptive technology, EnterpriseWizard is the only company able to offer fixed-price implementations backed by an unconditional guarantee of success, even for the most sophisticated deployments. The software features a graphical workflow editor, business rules and email automation, granular permissions, time-keeping, WMI integration, graphical charts/reports, and a full audit trail for government compliance and ITIL support.    

  Nirvanix is the premier “Cloud Storage” platform provider. Nirvanix has built a global cluster of storage nodes collectively referred to as the Storage Delivery Network (SDN), powered by the Nirvanix Internet Media File System (IMFS). The SDN intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best network location, providing the best user experience in the marketplace. With the ability to store multiple file copies in multiple geographic nodes, the SDN enables unparalleled data availability for developers, businesses and enterprises.

3Tera’s  AppLogic enables:

• Deployment of scaleble applications in hours without even changing code
• Provision, monitor and manage operations with just a browser
• Scale from a fraction of a server to hundreds of CPUs in days

AppLogic is a grid operating system which enables cloud computing for running and scaling web applications.  AppLogic is vendor-neutral. It uses advanced virtualization technologies to be completely compatible with existing operating systems, middleware and web applications. With AppLogic you can package an entire N-tier application or service into a logical entity and manage it as a single system.

Utility computing can be used in different ways depending on your business:

• Package applications for on-demand delivery
• Deploy your applications on prepackaged infrastructure
• Scale your online service without building a multi-tenant system
• Develop new web applications
• Build custom N-tier application infrastructure

Package applications for on-demand delivery

AppLogic allows you to run many instances of one or more prepackaged web applications. This enables selling access to high-value on demand applications such as CRM, E-mail, VoIP PBX and many others.  AppLogic makes it easy to create a copy of the desired application for each customer, configure it with an IP address and hardware resources, and have it running within minutes – without operator involvement.

Deploy your applications on prepackaged infrastructure

Pick a standard infrastructure assembly from the catalog, copy your HTML files, scripts code and database onto the logical volumes and start your application. The catalog assemblies are built by IT experts and ready for production deployment.

Scale your online service without building a multi-tenant system 

Not only is this a great way to scale your service (and, therefore, your business!), but the resulting system is much more resilient than a large, complex multi-tenant application. In AppLogic each application instance carries it’s own infrastructure, such as databases and application servers so a failure affects only a single customer.

Build custom N-tier application infrastructure

Using the AppLogic visual infrastructure editor and the catalog of virtual appliances, you can assemble, configure and troubleshoot your system visually. Integrations that took weeks can be done in hours.

 Managed hosting providers

Companies with expertise operating data centers can use AppLogic to expand existing hosting offerings with pre-packed complex environments. Plus, AppLogic’s ability to scale applications easily provides low entry prices and easy upsell for new services. 

Software firms developing new web applications can minimize their go-to-market cost using AppLogic’s ability to copy, deploy and maintain hundreds of instances of their application. 

To achieve true utility computing, operators must have as much (or more) control of applications running in their virtual private datacenter as they have today in colo or in their own facilities:

• System dashboard
• Infrastructure editor
• Visual monitoring console
• Command-line interface

Application Monitoring

Trying to monitor the operation of distributed applications has been an art in itself. To make operations as transparent as possible, AppLogic includes an integrated monitoring system that makes hundreds of counters available for building custom dashboards.

 Hardware Configuration

The Web has succeeded by allowing individuals and companies to add their own unique capabilities to The Net. Cloud Computing should develop the same way. Developers shouldn’t be forced to compromise on the selection of development platforms, software, or security. Cloudware is an architecture intended to provide an open framework allowing the development of a cloud computing environment that’s rigorous enough to take on any web or enterprise application.

Cloudware incorporates the fundamental building blocks used in developing today’s most popular applications; storage and computing, software catalog, definition and control, plus how they all relate to each other. More importantly, the architecture is vendor agnostic so that third party vendors, not just 3tera, can participate in the system. The Cloudware architecture supports the most popular operating systems – Linux, Solaris and Windows – and is targeted toward clients who want to explore the extreme scale and flexibility of cloud computing infrastructures quickly and easily..

Utility computing