Cheap and Easy Technology A Tour of Web Services for Business David Robertson Covenant Technology Services
Dec 03, 2014
Cheap and EasyTechnology
A Tour of Web Services for Business
David RobertsonCovenant Technology Services
Thank You
now . . . the bait-and-switch
A new type of technology that can (and likely will) significantly impact your organization
The next paradigm in the evolution of technology
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Learning to think in new ways: How new technology
matches (and drives) organizational needs
Web Services
•Web-based applications
•Computers talking to other computers over the Internet
•A new paradigm of computing
Evolution ofTechnology (1981 -
now)
•Age of the PC (1981 - 1991)
•Age of the Local Area Network (1990 - 2006)
•Age of the Internet (2006 - ???)
PCPC
•Individual productivity•Local storage, local apps•Applications directly
replaced existing processes
PCPC
PCPC
PCPC
ServerServer
•Deparment productivity•Storage and some apps
on server•Applications started to
be something new
•Organizational productivity•Storage and some apps in
the cloud•Applications now completely
different than what was possible before Internet
Google Apps
•www.google.com/a
•Collection of tools: Email, Calendar, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Wiki (Sites), IM (GTalk)
•3 versions: free, Premier ($50 / user / year), Education
Components of a business web
service•API
•Data you can export
•RSS feed
•Tagging / organization tools
APIs
•Application Programming Interface
•Allows you to use your data, in ways the web service has not appreciated
•Gives you (potentially) data portability
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Flickr
•www.flickr.com
•$25 / year
•Photosharing. Unlimited uploads, unlimited storage, access to original files
•Another option: www.smugmug.com
Why the Cloud?
•Cross-organization communication, collaboration
•Cost and capabilities
•Ubiquitous access
Why a web service?
•Organization: Tagging, and geotagging
•Storage: As much as you want, infinitely cheaper than doing it yourself
•Storage management
•Sharing
Wiki
A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who
accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup
language.
Wiki - sources
•www.editme.com
•www.pbwiki.com
•www.wikispaces.com
Online Storage
•Store files on the web
•www.box.net
•Useful for sharing, backup, collaboration, distribution
Campfire: Chatroom
•www.campfirenow.com
•IM for groups
•Great communication and collaboration tool
•All history is kept
Highrise
•www.highrisehq.com
•Lightweight CRM; great tool for managing contacts and interactions with customers, vendors, partners, etc.
Web Services . . .moving
Now
Later
Toes in the Water
David [email protected]