covering Google App Engine, Amazon S3. Benefits of easy setup and easy shutoff.

I'm here too.

he's talking about Flickr APIs, two in the audience using Flickr Pro for their institution

covering a few examples of using flickr apis with apps, DF Gallery, Audioslides & RSS. Campus photo tours, interactive galleries

integrating campus maps with photos, news releases with flickr photos, easy for writers to submit photos - saves storage and bandwidth.

Google App Engine really is still in beta. The presenter is really stressing beta.

hehe, most google apps are in beta, but this one reallly is BETA.

Started to learn some Python. Wish I knew more.

eduRank compares university sites to competitors, runs on google apps.

that app sounded interesting, but I missed it

now on to Amazon S3, costs continue to go down

that is right! I hate GoDaddy.

use Amazon S3 and other cloud computing services to remove the server admins and ease of server setup.

btw, for those who are not in here, the presenter just recommended to stay away from GoDaddy.

S3 buckets = folders for storage, remote archiving, many startups that just exist using S3

EC2 gives you virtual machine space, high availability and bandwidth

ahh sweet, Panda Streaming

Panda Streaming, integrates with S3 and EC2 for video streaming, admin dashboard for managing videos

ooo, sounds cool. iTunes U videos?

smeranda, could be used for hosting, Supports flv and h264.

now talking about twitter, uses in highed, blogging integration, quick announcements SMS notification network

lets talk about plurk

Twitter was having some huge problems earlier this year.

(just noticed standing room only in here again)

I had a website with a twitter feed that one day loaded someone else's twitter feed. Some guy in Germany.

Missouri SMT using twitter for emergency communications

that and they had huge downtimes

YouTube, non-profit channel page. You are at the mercy of them to approve you.

about 6 in the audience have a non-profit channel page for google

sounds like you wouldn't want to use it for emergency communications

yikes for Missouri.

Mizzou Engineering pulling youtube vids ad playing in their own site.

www.vagabondbynature.com...

the presenter's web site

Q: Liability to the University participating in these services..?

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

Q: If you upload vids to youtube, are you handing over copyrights to them? A: no.

Q: S3, what about FIRPA for putting student data up there?

A: you're at their mercy again, but speaker isn't sure, will check.

Q: SIS integration with Google Apps, what's possible?

A: it has to live on it's own domain/subdomain, not too secure transferiing data between ec2 machines

Q: any concerns putting our data up there, and the company changes their TOS? is anyone worried?

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.