Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2

Of course! Cloud Platforms should be friendly to cloud applications. At the moment, two Cloud Computing platforms are battling it out: Amazon EC2 and Google Apps. Competition is good, and it will benefit everyone. Remember Java's Write-Once-Run-Anywhere (WORA) paradigm? Well, AppDrop makes it possible to run Cloud Apps for two of the leading Cloud Computing Platforms. WORA for Cloud Computing! Check it out!

Links:
AppDrop
Waxy.org

Cloud Apps and Google Sky

This could not wait much longer. The launching of the Browser-based Google Sky heralds the beginning for this Cloud Apps Blog. The name of the app - Sky connects with Clouds, hence, it sparks the birth of the Official Blog of Cloud Applications, with this reference to Google Sky as the first post. The fact that Google itself has been making great strides in Cloud Computing makes it a great catalyst for this post.
The Browser-based Google Sky is a wonderful tool for Amateur Astronomy and for students interested in Space. Never before in history can the common man wonder at the heavens with just a web-browser. This is the age of Cloud Applications. Its Cloud Computing for the masses. As such, this blog will be devoted to analyzing, and simply writing about the growing list of cool Cloud Applications out there. This will be your chronicle to the impact of Cloud Apps on the masses.