It is rumored that GooGle will announce an array of Web Services, including Big Table tonight. Free competition to AmaZon's Simple D B.

Dave Winer hypothetically leaked this a week ago. He sees it as a way to prepare StartUp-s for acquisition by GooGle (avoiding a painful Infra Structure transition).

I was just thinking a couple weeks ago that we need a PyThon/PyLons equivalent of DruPal running on Amazon Web Services.

So clearly we'll need practices or code-wrappers that make it easy to switch Eco System.

Update: yup that's it - whoa, for now you have to write in PyThon! All of the Python-built tools seem to borrow heavily from DjanGo, a Python Web Framework. [App Engine] will work with other Python frameworks (these ones were all specifically mentioned in the documentation: [EZT], Cheetah, [Clear Silver], Quixote, DjanGo and Cherry Py). (No PyLons?) Google App Engine supports any framework written in pure Python that speaks CGI (and any WSGI-compliant framework using a CGI adaptor), including Django, Cherry Py, PyLons, and WebPy.

And only a few thousand people can get in for now - it's already too late.

Tsktsk putting up [Huddle Chat], a clone of Camp Fire.

• they took it down.

[Nate Westheimer] thinks they're aiming at Face Book more than AmaZon.

Niall Kennedy has a good run-down of trade-offs.

Here's a good review of bloggage.

Ian Bicking looks at issues facing users of other Python Web Framework-s.

Tim O Reilly discusses the LockIn risk, linking to [Stephen O Grady]'s more detailed analysis.

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