Comments on: Google Gadgets Broken

By: ronploof

ronploof — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:10:17 +0000

Mike,

Apps in the cloud allow portability. You can login from anywhere to get them.

As for the measurements that I track on my dashboard, they are all explained in my book:-)

By: Mike Natelson

Mike Natelson — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:05:44 +0000

Assuming it is functioning, what are the advantages of using “cloud” computing over having specific applications installed on your computer?

I have no idea of what you are representing on your dashboard & how that information is helpful to you. “Cloud computing for Dummies” anywhere?

By: Jim Molini

Jim Molini — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:13:07 +0000

And to add insult to injury, I tried logging into Twitter to tweet about your post and found that “Twitter is Over Capacity.” Isn't technology wonderful?

By: Jim Molini

Jim Molini — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:10:45 +0000

Ron,
You're right about one thing. Cloud computing is all about trust. It's hard to keep the faith when things stop unexpectedly and don't come back up. However, the problem you're also experiencing is that there's not much choice when the gadgets you're using are also bound to the single provider. Although they say that things are less sticky in the cloud, your experience is showing the flaw in that argument. Hope things start working and keep working again for you.

By: Paul Gailey

Paul Gailey — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:37:51 +0000

If you know of a tech utopia, pls tell me where it is as I still haven´t found what I´m looking for and it´s like I´m losing my religion. In their defense, Google employees do reach out within their Groups and yes even on Twitter to counter the impression they are a monolith with no humans, and work to resolve issues. I´ve been told by some that I shouldn´t place too many eggs in the cloud basket so to speak, but as you say it cuts both ways with internal IT, installed software.

By: Paul Gailey

Paul Gailey — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:23:22 +0000

As you know Ron, I also have grappled with the gadget breakdown for a week now. It is obtuse that the issue cannot seemingly be reproduced by Google employees and more people report the same problem with the insertion/generation of the gadgets. One of the more compelling reasons to use Google Docs is those gadgets that can make better distributed and more powerful visualisations of data compared to the mainstream majority office deployed software. This loss of service of Google Docs, totally damages the ability of evangelists like ourselves to convince small and medium business owners to move to the cloud. As you say, if it werea few hours, I could live with it, like the fabled 99.99% uptime claims which equates to about 8 hours downtime a year – however at 7 days plus, this is no longer a normal outage and it will take a great deal of evidence for me to regain trust again in Google non search products.

By: Bill Roehl

Bill Roehl — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:30:34 +0000

Thanks for the link to the discussion. My local crime dashboards are dead and all my attempts at reviving them didn't work. Glad I stumbled across your post here letting me know there's nothing I can do.

Boo Google.

By: harrytheASICguy

harrytheASICguy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:01:06 +0000

Hi Ron,

You bring up a good point regarding cloud computing. When you use SaaS, you put your faith in someone you can hopefully trust. At the same time, we've all had similar frustrations waiting for our IT depts. to correct issues, so it cuts both ways.

IMHO, part of the issue is Google, which treats so many of its services as "beta" and where you can't ever reach a person to talk to. This was the key reason that selling the Nexus One online also failed ... people, and moreso small businesses like yours, want to know that there is someone they can reach and get a response from for support.I think that's a separate issue from cloud computing, but one which cloud computing magnifies.

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