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I mentioned previously that there is a lot to the Microsoft cloud story , in particular, around data. Hopefully, this helps clear some things up. Core Options Data storage is provided by two distinct services, SQL Data Services and Azure Storage . SQL Data Services (SDS) SDS provides a cloud scalable...

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One of the early Windows Azure features that really excited my was the worker role functionality.

If you are not familiar with work roles they are basically a very simple way to do back ground processing when hosting an application on Azure.

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Ayende's post today (or yesterday) about Balsamiq reminded me that I needed to write up a quick review.

Disclaimer: As you see this is a great tool. However, in the current economic climate I could not pass up a free post/review for a tool that I already like. So yes, I did receive a free license in exchange for writing about this tool. And yes, that will make some people a little creepy and I am usually one of those people. However, I liked the tool so this post is technically saving me $79 for the 10 minutes it took to write, which is way more than I will make in advertising.[1]

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We finally got an updated version of the Graffiti roadmap up on the site. There are some very noticeable updates and reprioritization. We (Telligent) have some lofty goals with Graffiti, but we came to the conclusion that we need to focus some more time on the basics before we start muddying the waters with features such as forums.

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Others are starting to get involved in the Bloggers Holiday Charity Challenge and not using eBay, so it is time to drop eBay from the name.

I'm donating all of my Lounge ad network earnings for November and December to our local food bank [1]....And not only that, but after talking with James, he's decided to sweeten the deal by donating his portion of revenue of any blogger in The Lounge who does the same thing. That's pretty cool. [Dave Donaldson]

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What happens with three very successful companies all start competing in the same web space?

Consumers get cheap prices. Today Amazon announced a more open beta, lots of free beta access, and much cheaper prices on their cloud db service, SimpleDB.

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Before you read the rest of this post, quickly look around your office and do a quick count on the number of usable gadgets and gizmos you have not touched in more than three months? I will wait....

Wow, quite a few things huh? What to do with all of this stuff?

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I have been researching various cloud offerings on and off for the last couple of months. I have primarily focused on offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Here is an overview and some quick opinions of what each service offers.

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I expect we will be hearing many announcements like this from Google and many others in the coming weeks and months.

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Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of Live Search services "Silk Road".

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