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SevenXNet - Rolled Out – Pre-Alpha version

Hey all

Guess what.., after a long time of blogging.. my week end mins. helped some what… in getting this done.

Indigenous.. Own Effort.. Inputs.. or what ever.. it all helped a little bit.

I just got the pre-alpha version – stripped of all functionalities of the planned real application in place ! i mean in the cloud for every one to test.

The application will aim to .. do blah blah blah.. etc… <every thing that’s in slow development>

But this pre-alpha aims at the core of security and authentication.

Can a web 2.0 site be safe for its users without authentication … ? NO

So, its just an extent of having users register / sign in with Live ID <No need detailed registration process like other web 2.0 sites..> If you have a Live ID, or Hotmail id, use it. Sign In.

Get your own – page like “www.sevenxnet.com/yourname”

beyond this is, what you will see on Alpha.., Beta, versions.. of this week end application..

Being serious about some thing is always fun as long as the subject about some thing is what you like.

Welcome to my Pre-Alpha version of SevenXNet.

Web 2.0 – A starting pitch…

Web 2.0 fundamentally takes how business uses its customers, partners, and their interrelationship. First any Web 2.0 should focus on bringing the web users together via network effect. For example www.flickr.com is a web 2.0 based website which is carefully engineered to get the network effect rolling in the right place for its partners and itself drive the revenue to the company. Collective user value is the key ingredient to make a Web 2.0 business a success. Network effect is brought in place by usually mixing the following with the right mix of certain ratio based on the focus of 2.0 product – freemium, web based sharing capability with a community around them, network effects. Freemiums are usually not that easy to obtain because strong source of revenue should back the funding required. Some of the freemium business models have become very successful, like Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flickr, MySpace, Skype, etc… . Web 2.0 should always be a booming success if the application has zero marketing cost. Value added services should help the same to maintain a precalculated / speculated amount of money to flow in. Every web 2.0 company can make revenue in the following ways.
I call these the Navarathnas of Web 2.0

1. Allow users to store data/activity for free up to a certain limit.
2. Make the tool (web 2.0) to be interactive , fast , optimal which will attract the users to do it again.
3. For users who cross over certain limit, provide information of how to obtain more features / activity by paying for Value Added Service.
4. Allow users to share the data/activity information with their other friends , by requesting them to register for a similar service.
5. Don’t provide free credits, for users introduced by them. U cant give any more.
6. If a user joins by them self don’t provide free credits again for joining. Ur already free.
7. Allow users to directly take the data / activity out of  your system to your partners system, where you need to cash upon the transfer from your partners, make sure your partner does not tie up the system which is an exact replica of yours.
8. Index and optimize search across the data of all users who are willing to share it, and bring in revenue by bringing in ad for targeting such customers.
9. Allow users to add meta data, make some of the users feel the taste of being a developer… which will make computer novice very happy, expert and developers to learn / make use..

All these Navarathnas should stay on top of one gold ring model which is called the value of your company. When you have such a web 2.0 business built, no doubt that your company will become a multi million dollar business. Make sure that you a solid infrastructure to support the growth of your user base. Having 100 users at a time should not bring down your server.

Virtual Box – Sun Microsystems

Virtual box is open source – full virtualization of x86 hardware. Unlike Microsoft Virual PC (A free version of virtualization software for x86 architecture) which had some issue to bring up the display setting properly for fedora Linux or open Solaris OS. I have a Dell Inspiron 1520/1521 who's WXGA+ diplay uses inbuilt display from intel chipset which shares 512 MB or RAM (max) when the installed RAM is 4GB. On parallel installation of Fedora Linux or Open Solaris OS, they fail to detect my WXGA+ display, or comply with it for even a lower resolution. It appeared the same when i tried to install these Operating Systems as Virtual instances on Microsoft Virtual PC. Microsoft Virtual PC, is expected to generate a virtualized display card with generic drivers, but what i expected was not a true possibility as it was built for what it was. Other hardware virtualization options of Xen HyperV (Open Source) was ruled out, because the issue was not just installing Virtual OS over my laptop but, was to bypass the video card compatibility issue with Open Solaris OS or Fedora Linux. Surprisingly i came across the Virtual Box from Sun Microsystems. Open Solaris requires only 512 MB , but if you allocate 512 MB to install the OS then it might take few hours to complete the installation. It is better allocate 1GB+. After it installs Open Solaris runs without any issues on the machine. Network connection gets shared automatically with the underlying Network connection. On the whole I appreciate this flaw less open source Virtual Box.

"Out of the Box" Cloud Computing

What do you see outside the cloud is more important to define than what should be inside the cloud. It is deficult to identify what should be inside the cloud, and its a complex question like what is really Web 2.0 .

When web 2.0 came a few knew a little bit, but they were literally confused of how to define it, and few years later, every one knew, thats a term that can be used to gain better / easy market attention and but not attraction. Still not a clear way to define it.

Any new concept needs to gain attention, which should turn into attraction (at least for developers in the world of IT), for every one to implement it in a development world. Geeks jump on every thing, but that does not mean its popular. Users should jump on and luv to use the same beauty. If not then its real waste of time and money on every new concept of that category even if only net geeks junk blogs on that.

Now lets define Cloud Computing.

Definition : A process of computation that is developed in one or many definable locations and the same which compiles or executes (based on type of application) in a non definable location, over a non specific platform connecting to any type of application only via an interface (API) which is appendable, deductible & alterable at will of development from single point by secured application configuration is defined as Cloud Computing.

Beauty of Transfer :

SaaS (Software as Service) : Helped users to get things done, without loading Software on their define location / server / machine.

HaaS (Hardware as Service ) : Helped users to get things done using a hardware which does not exist in their location.

PaaS (Platform as Service) : Helped users to use (HaaS) and (SaaS) together, for their benifit.

Though these were existing, if you want your app from one service provider to another , yuck... ull have to cry the hell out of you wallet do bare those expenses.

With Cloud in picture, you develop your app that might have a (HaaS) which you can switch any time you want.

With Cloud in picture, you develop your app that might have a (SaaS) whose interface you can swith any time you want.

With Cloud in picture, you develop your app that can move where ever you want, but you dont know the physical location of where exactly your app runs from.

Worries for you : Only your development

Happines for you : Lower Cost

Risk for you : Data Security.