Google App Engine Goes Beyond Free Quotas

Google announced pricing for the Google App Engine on Tuesday. It was released last April as a free service, but apps were limited to fixed resource usage quotas. There are still free quotas, but the following prices have been set up for going further:

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Advertisers and Developers Monetize Social Media Apps

Facebook has been encouraging developers to monetize their apps. They've recently gone so far as to create resources to help developers build business models around them. One example of app monetization at work comes from the company Offerpal Media. This is a company that not only utilizes Facebook in its business model, but MySpace and other social networks as it enables both advertisers and developers to…

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Amazon’s Kindle 2: First Images

Amazon's Kindle 2 has arrived in the hands of those lucky enough to get the early pre-orders. Luckily Webproworld was among the first batch of recipients. So let's take a look at this bad boy.

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Google Transitions Map Maker Info To Mainstream

Google Maps just got a lot more accurate, and as PBS likes to say, "this . . . was made possible, in part, by . . . viewers like you."  Or to put it another way: maps of 16 countries have been transferred from Google Map Maker to Google Maps.

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