Easy payments with your NFC enabled phone

Filed under mobile, business

If you thought QR codes were pretty amazing you might be interested in NFC too. With a NFC capable mobile phone you’ll be able to use your phone to pay for parking, bus ticket, drinks, etc just by holding your phone over a compatible device...

What is NFC?

NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a new communication technology that ...

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Privacy in the cloud

Filed under privacy, cloud, business, legal

At a FeWeb+ seminar about legal and privacy issues my cloud related questions didn't get a clear answer, so I decided to do some research on the latest developments in this area. It seems the cloud environment is still something of a “gray zone” and it’s often unclear which laws apply.

The situation now

Being an EU citizen ...

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New CreOFF site is online

Filed under python, cloud, business, appengine

The new CreOFF site is online. Or maybe not.
And I have no idea on which server it's running right now.

Sounds confusing?
It's because the site is now running on Google's own cloud infrastructure, which means it should be highly available and scalable, and a copy of the site will be started on a server located ...

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Google I/O tickets sell out in 59 minutes

Filed under justforfun, cloud, business, appengine

The 2011 Google I/O edition in San Francisco looks interesting, but apparently you had to register VERY quickly: Google I/O tickets sell out in 59 minutes...

Apparently the registration site had huge problems keeping up with the sudden burst of visits: what happened? Did the registration site run on an IIS with ColdFusion instead of running on Google ...

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Running on Google Apps for Business

Filed under collaboration, googleapps, saas, cloud, business

Most of CreOFF's administration (e-mail, calendar,...) has been migrated to Google Apps for Business, running on Google's cloud infrastructure.

What are the benefits for CreOFF?

It takes an effort (and some risk) to move all your sensitive data and e-mails to a different infrastructure. Still, these features persuaded me:

Team collaboration

Not just an e-mail service, but also ...

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