| saltybeagle | is | in TPR7 - Cloud Computing, Purposing WebApps for Education #heweb08 |
Oct 07, 2008 -
01:30PM
| saltybeagle | is | in TPR7 - Cloud Computing, Purposing WebApps for Education #heweb08 |
| saltybeagle | covering Google App Engine, Amazon S3. Benefits of easy setup and easy shutoff. |
| edames | says | I'm here too. |
| saltybeagle | he's talking about Flickr APIs, two in the audience using Flickr Pro for their institution |
| saltybeagle | covering a few examples of using flickr apis with apps, DF Gallery, Audioslides & RSS. Campus photo tours, interactive galleries |
| saltybeagle | integrating campus maps with photos, news releases with flickr photos, easy for writers to submit photos - saves storage and bandwidth. |
| edames | says | Google App Engine really is still in beta. The presenter is really stressing beta.  |
| saltybeagle | hehe, most google apps are in beta, but this one reallly is BETA. |
| edames | says | Started to learn some Python. Wish I knew more. |
| saltybeagle | eduRank compares university sites to competitors, runs on google apps. |
| saltybeagle | says | that app sounded interesting, but I missed it |
| saltybeagle | says | now on to Amazon S3, costs continue to go down |
| edames | says | that is right! I hate GoDaddy. |
| saltybeagle | says | use Amazon S3 and other cloud computing services to remove the server admins and ease of server setup. |
| edames | says | btw, for those who are not in here, the presenter just recommended to stay away from GoDaddy. |
| saltybeagle | says | S3 buckets = folders for storage, remote archiving, many startups that just exist using S3 |
| saltybeagle | says | EC2 gives you virtual machine space, high availability and bandwidth |
| edames | says | ahh sweet, Panda Streaming |
| saltybeagle | says | Panda Streaming, integrates with S3 and EC2 for video streaming, admin dashboard for managing videos |
| smeranda | says | ooo, sounds cool. iTunes U videos? |
| saltybeagle | says | smeranda, could be used for hosting, Supports flv and h264. |
| saltybeagle | says | now talking about twitter, uses in highed, blogging integration, quick announcements SMS notification network |
| daugustine | says | lets talk about plurk |
| edames | says | Twitter was having some huge problems earlier this year. |
| saltybeagle | says | (just noticed standing room only in here again) |
| edames | says | I had a website with a twitter feed that one day loaded someone else's twitter feed. Some guy in Germany. |
| saltybeagle | says | Missouri SMT using twitter for emergency communications |
| edames | says | that and they had huge downtimes |
| saltybeagle | says | YouTube, non-profit channel page. You are at the mercy of them to approve you. |
| saltybeagle | says | about 6 in the audience have a non-profit channel page for google |
| daugustine | says | sounds like you wouldn't want to use it for emergency communications |
| edames | says | yikes for Missouri. |
| saltybeagle | says | Mizzou Engineering pulling youtube vids ad playing in their own site. |
| edames | says | www.vagabondbynature.com/ |
| edames | says | the presenter's web site |
| saltybeagle | says | Q: Liability to the University participating in these services..? |
| saltybeagle | says | A: some a leery of a subscription service when they aren't in control of the hardware, work through personnel and make sure it works for you |
| saltybeagle | says | Q: If you upload vids to youtube, are you handing over copyrights to them? A: no. |
| saltybeagle | says | Q: S3, what about FIRPA for putting student data up there? |
| saltybeagle | says | A: you're at their mercy again, but speaker isn't sure, will check. |
| saltybeagle | says | Q: SIS integration with Google Apps, what's possible? |
| saltybeagle | says | A: it has to live on it's own domain/subdomain, not too secure transferiing data between ec2 machines |
| saltybeagle | says | Q: any concerns putting our data up there, and the company changes their TOS? is anyone worried? |
| saltybeagle | says | A: THere is some risk. Keep in mind it is in their interest to keep their services alive, but there's usually a bailout clause in the TOS. |
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