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As Scott has blogged , he came to visit us in Cardiff recently, while staying at the OU for a month on a fellowship. We had a lot of great chats, and while I failed to convince him of the ways of atheist, reductionist rationalism, I did manage to convert him to my succession metaphor for technology adoption. I used this in my VLE book a while back, and it goes something like this (from the book): When there is a new environment, for example barren rock, a few pioneer species, such as lichens begin to grow. The acid from these decomposes some rock particles, and their own death creates a coarse soil. This is suitable for mosses, which require little soil, and in turn these decompose to enrich and deepen the soil, until it is suitable for some grasses to grow.
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Google App Engine has received some needed upgrades to its service that customers have been asking for over the past several months. The issues came to a head last week after a developer posted 1 3 reasons why he and his group decided to drop Google Apps. Some questioned the developer's execution but overall many of the issues have also been noted in the Google Apps discussion boards. Customers have been asking for such things as an increase in the amount of data that can be uploaded in a URL Fetch and an increase in the 30 second limits to upload data. In conversations yesterday, the Google App Engine team said the URL Fetch has been increased from one megabyte to 30 megabytes of data. The 30-second limit is now 10 minutes.
Google App Engine Gets Some Needed Upgrades - ReadWriteCloud
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers
Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice .
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More and more of my word processing is getting moved to the Web these days for a number of reasons.