PutPlace Sponsors the Irish Blog Awards 2008

PutPlace is moving up in the world. We sponsored the Best Group Blog in the 2007 Irish Blog Awards but this year we are stumping for the big one, Best Blog. We also offer each of the individual winners a free years service on PutPlace starting from the night of this years Blog Awards.

Its great to see plenty of indigenous sponsors in the mix as well. Full marks yet again to Damien for all the trojan work he does each year to  create this event.

I’ll see you there on the night.

We are looking for a Mac Programmer

Hi,

PutPlace is looking for a Mac Uber Geek to lead our Mac platform initiative. If you live and breathe the Mac and OS-X and have a track record of successful software delivery on the Mac platform, drop me at line at Joe.Drumgoole at putplace.com.

Must Haves:

• Deep knowledge of programming the Mac including, Cocoa and Carbon interfaces
• GUI design experience (on Tiger)
• Knowledge of HTTP protocols
• Use of web-services
• REST
• Xcode superhero

Nice to Have:

• Python
• Pyton Objective C Bridge experience

We pay top rates for top people and offer all the usual benefits.

Amazon SimpleDB

Can’t wait to integrate the new Amazon SimpleDB into the PutPlace offering.

The PutPlace Pitch in Silicon Valley

Here’s me pitching along with the rest of the Paddy’s Valley crew in Silicon Valley. Congratulations to Helene of Nubiq for winning the top slot.

Giant Global Graph

Tim Berners Lee wrote a great post last week on the Giant Global Graph. This is Tim’s vision of the Social Graph that Brad Fitzpatrick talks about.

The Giant Global Graph is the network of all your connections both on your network of friends and acquaintances (your social graph) and your network of content (files, videos, email, music etc.)

End Users are well served by social networks but their networks of documents are becoming increasingly fractured. Each new backup, each new copy on Flickr, Facebook, YouTube or Google Docs erases valuable information linking the copy and the original. Eventually users end up in a stasis with multiple copies of everything and no understanding of which one can be be moved, destroyed, updated or copied without compounding the problem.

PutPlace solves this problem by dynamically maintaining your Document Graph for all your content, both in the home and on the web. So everything you publish on flickr can be linked back to the original copy on your home PC so that you can fully understand the relationships between all your content now and in the future.

Blacknight peering with Amazon in Europe

I see from Blacknight’s blog that they are now peering with Amazon’s S3 services in Europe. This is great news for us as Blacknight hosting customer and even better news for our European customers who should see much better performance when we roll out our European hosting product based on Amazon S3 located in Europe.

Justin Mason joins PutPlace

I’m delighted to welcome Justin Mason to the PutPlace team.  For those of you that don’t know Justin, he is the author of the SpamAssassin anti-spam product and is also a VP of the Apache Foundation. Justin will be working on scaling our PutPlace solutions on S3 and EC2 and will also lead PutPlace’s Open Source initiatives (more about that later).

He’s no slouch in the blogging department either and regularily shows up in the top 10 list of Irish Bloggers.

Great to have you on board, Justin!

S3 Storage in Europe

Hot off the presses, (tip of the hat to John), Amazon is announcing S3 storage with content stored in European locations.

eyeFi WIFI SD Card links cameras to computers

WIFI NetNews has the scoop on eyeFI’s new SD card that adds WIFI capability to any computer.  Now you can use companion software on any Windows or Mac PC to directly upload photos from you camera to a range of Websites

..initial partners are dotPhoto, Facebook, Flickr, Fotki, Gallery, Kodak Gallery, Phanfare, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Sharpcast, Shutterfly, SmugMug, Snapfish, TypePad, VOX, Wal-Mart, and Webshots.

Nice crysallisation of the Future from Cringely

Robert talks at length about the Google/Apple nexus, but near the end he outlines a vision that I agree with wholeheartedly,

We’re approaching a transition point in computing that most people don’t understand. It isn’t just the Internet or search or access to movies and music that matter, but all of those presented in a technological context that Just Plain Works. The importance of all our digital stuff along with our fear of losing it will shift us more and more toward central backup and storage. And once you have your life sitting on some company’s server, are you going to move it on a whim? No, and that means there will be a LOT of money to be made providing these services. Storage and automated backup and probably some form of netboot with a fresh OS image every time is the future of computing whether we’re talking about desktops or notebooks or mobile phones.

We want PutPlace to provide a safe passage between your PC and the place think is safest to store your data, whether that’s Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Apple.