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Sam Johnston asked a question in Enomaly on September 26, 2008 14:27:

Why does Enomaly censor the cloud-computing Google Group?

What benefit does Enomaly derive from closing and censoring the cloud-computing Google Group (founded by Enomaly Founder & CTO, Reuven Cohen and [mis]managed by Enomaly Director of R&D, Khazret Sapenov) and gagging and/or banning prominent bloggers?

Would it not be better for everyone if Enomaly were to let anyone join and allow some of the other community members (perhaps some of the top posters) to moderate, or better, disable moderation altogether given some posts are time sensitive and the current setup is unreliable? Can you provide some examples of spam prevented by moderation?

Do others feel that this moderation is justified or appropriate? Are any of the active posters (outside of Enomaly) actually satisfied with the current opaque arrangement?

Sam Johnston shared an idea in Enomaly on September 26, 2008 13:24:

Enomaly needs to stop talking and release something!

Please release a stable product - we've been waiting for Enomalism since this time in 2005 (almost three years!) and it's still vapourware. Now it's been renamed to 'Enomaly ECP' and there's still no releases in sight.

Sam Johnston set one of Sam Johnston's replies as an official response to "What is the mission of the TrustSaas site?" in Australian Online Solutions

Sam Johnston set one of Sam Johnston's replies as an official response to "What are the benefits of becoming a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?" in Australian Online Solutions

Sam Johnston replied on July 17, 2008 09:34 to the idea "Simplified user interface" in Australian Online Solutions:

You are not the first to mention this and we have been thinking about how to make the interface more presentable. On the other hand we want to be able to support many sites from the home page so each one can't take up too much space. Suggestions welcome.

Sam Johnston started following the idea "Simplified user interface" in Australian Online Solutions.

Sam Johnston set one of Sam Johnston's replies as an official response to "RSS feeds for up/down events" in Australian Online Solutions

Sam Johnston replied on July 17, 2008 09:30 to the idea "RSS feeds for up/down events" in Australian Online Solutions:

This is a good idea, but we currently only cache the current round of checks (Pingdom hold the history for us) so to make this work we would need to store the checks. We will most likely implement this feature (or something like it) in the future.

Sam Johnston started following the idea "RSS feeds for up/down events" in Australian Online Solutions.

Sam Johnston set one of Sam Johnston's replies as an official response to "Monitor popular public services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)" in Australian Online Solutions

Sam Johnston replied on July 17, 2008 09:27 to the idea "Monitor popular public services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)" in Australian Online Solutions:

Thanks for the feedback - we liked this idea so much that we implemented it straight away, starting with Facebook, Twitter, TypePad and Wordpress (we'll likely add more but please let us know which ones you want by suggesting them separately):

Sam Johnston started following the idea "Monitor popular public services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)" in Australian Online Solutions.

A comment on the question "Are site-specific apps portable?" in Fluid:

Correct, it was purely a hypothetical because I saw a neat use that could exist, but I didn't want to go ahead and start doing it if there was a better way. I thought it was like Prism where you had to have Prism installed for the SSBs to work. – Thomas, on July 07, 2008 07:23

Todd replied on July 07, 2008 06:09 to the question "Are site-specific apps portable?" in Fluid:

sam, I have nothing else to add to my complete answer above. I'm now convinced Fluid is not for you. I would recommend Mozilla Prism or Adobe Air:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

They are both *excellent* products and much more inline with what you described.

thanks.

Eric Suesz replied on July 07, 2008 04:42 to the question "Are site-specific apps portable?" in Fluid:

It sounds like there are some hard feelings starting to develop here, and that is too bad.

From the perspective of someone who just jumped into the conversation (someone who doesn't know all the details of the decision to license/distribute the software this way) it sounds like Thomas started the topic as a hypothetical idea designed to provoke discussion, and not necessarily to provoke a confrontation. I'm actually pretty impressed with the conversation so far. Todd, I've have had many discussions on Get Satisfaction with Thomas, and while he can admittedly be a bit sharp and pointed in his choice of words, he does often have some insightful observations that often surprise me -- or at least make me consider the alternatives.

My hope is that everyone here -- pretty smart folks as far as I can tell -- will get something useful out of the conversation while still keeping it real, if I may pull out a very tired phrase that wasn't still hip five years ago. In short, agree to disagree if you have to, but I'm actually enjoying the conversation. It may be that there is a way to mine something productive out of this topic, or at least I hope there is a way.

Sam Johnston replied on July 06, 2008 12:04 to the question "How do I become a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?" in Australian Online Solutions:

You subscribe to TrustSaaS using the 'Google Checkout' button on the site and a technician from Australian Online Solutions will follow up with you to deploy your service on the distributed monitoring and alerting systems (which are completely independent of this site), typically within 24 hours. The rates are USD100 per provider (for all services) per year.

Sam Johnston asked a question in Australian Online Solutions on July 06, 2008 12:03:

How do I become a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?

How do I become a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?

Sam Johnston replied on July 06, 2008 12:00 to the question "What are the benefits of becoming a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?" in Australian Online Solutions:

Although the basic services are available for free as a community service, all SaaS users should consider subscribing in order to avail of the following:

* SMS Alerting within minutes of an outage so you are the first rather than the last to know about it.
* Email Alerting for those who prefer not to be interrupted by SMS.
* Monthly Reports to show you detailed performance metrics for your providers (including uptime % and response times).
* Premium Support to ensure that you and your monitoring service is supported in the unlikely even of problems.
* Feature Requests including suggestions for new SaaS providers are prioritised (and often promptly implemented).
* Contribution to a project which benefits the community by making uptime monitoring information available.

Sam Johnston asked a question in Australian Online Solutions on July 06, 2008 12:00:

What are the benefits of becoming a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?

What are the benefits of becoming a TrustSaaS Premium Subscriber?

Sam Johnston replied on July 06, 2008 11:57 to the question "What is the mission of the TrustSaas site?" in Australian Online Solutions:

The site was created to allow all SaaS users to see how their provider(s) are performing over time, to be alerted when there are problems and to receive detailed reporting information. It is particularly useful for system administrators who need to know about issues before their users do, and for managers to ensure their users are able to work effectively. We strongly believe that SaaS and utility computing in general is the way of the future and endeavour to overcome adoption hurdles by showing empirical evidence that SaaS solutions are as good as (and usually better) than in-house solutions in terms of performance and availability.