Comments on: Google App Engine: Cashing in on the user data

If its growth trends continue to accelerate, Google will colonize more Web territory, collecting more data and monetizing it across billions of users and sites.

[Renegade Knight]

I'm thinking Web 3.0 will be the reaction to 2.0's utter lack of privacy or perhaps a reaction to an utter invastion of personal space that Web 2.0 seems to take for granted.

[thomas.wingenfeld]

Google (and some others) are driving the evolution of this new developing and ever changing ecosystem. I like the approach that they increase the ROI of advertising - there is much more room for improvement than by cutting costs in production, distribution etc. Doing this they need to build very robust infrastructures and if they overbuild a little bit (they can't use all their data centers) they offer a free service to the cloud and increase adoption of distributed approaches this way. Looks like they can't loose this game in the short term, and I am not sure if I should wish that they loose. Hopefully there will be some competition from Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon - so this evolution will never stop.

[mycaring]

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[cwgmpls]

We are only kidding ourselves if we think we can live in a world where our actions are not tracked. Information about personal activity is the grease that keeps our information economy humming. Knowing what you buy, where you shop, what you watch is the only way to keep our economy efficient and our prosperity growing. I am tracked every time I buy something -- I use my credit card. I am tracked even as I write this sentence. If I weren't tracked in this way, our information economy would collapse under its own inefficiency. Instead of pretending we can avoid being tracked, we should have a conversation about how to track activity in an open, ethical way that does not get in the way of free market competition.

[christhebliss]

this is the most intelligent reply I have ever read on this topic!

I say yes! Where do I sign up?

[Massimo Di Pierro]

you can also run code developed with a high level framework like web2py on the appengine.
Here is an example

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