Michael Kimsal reviews Google’s App Engine and calls out Project Zero as being likely candidate for IBM to join the trend towards cloud computing…

I, too, would love to see Project Zero in the cloud as well.

I was hoping that April Fools’ jokes on the Web would be passe this year. First I spotted this year. Of course, no hoax can ever top Google’s Pigeon Rank.

Somehow this flew under my radar. Sad, considering I am on the project. Project Zero is starting to become self-hosted (to the extent it makes sense, of course) with its own support forum running phpBB on the Project Zero runtime itself.

So I went and dug deeper…

Back in January, Rob Nicholson and Iain Lewis posted that phpBB now runs on Project Zero’s PHP runtime.

Getting a major PHP application, such as phpBB, running on Project Zero’s PHP runtime implemented in Java is quite impressive. But as I dug deeper, I came across a blog post from just a few days ago. SugarCRM is also running on Project Zero. That’s huge!!

UPDATE: It seems Network Solutions has turned off their search “feature” where they register the domain you just searched.

Here is a fun little experiment…

1. Do a search for a random domain on GoDaddy.com. I chose networksolutionsactuallyregisterseverydomainsearched.com. If the domain has been taken, think of another one.
2. Then go to Network Solutions and do the search on the same domain. Note that the domain is still available.
3. Now go back to GoDaddy.com and search one more time.

Hmmm. Seems Network Solutions searches are not idempotent.

tuba

The greatest instrument known to man

And I’m sure Tuba News would agree.

Which reminds me. If you haven’t checked out the Google Chart API, you must. That project is the tuba. With the recent ChartMaker available, it reminds me where SaaS is going.