Quoted: Google Apps Status Dashboard enables users and businesses to monitor the status of individual Google Apps services. Users of Google Apps can now view the status of individual services such as Gmail/Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video for businesses. Administrators of Google Apps Premier Edition, Standard Edition, Partner and Education Edition can also view status of the Admin Control Panel.

Task Queue API live on Google App Engine

Quoted: So your cellphone has a brushed-metal shell, can flip and slide four ways and has more buttons than an airplane cockpit. Big deal.

The new status symbol is what your phone can do — count calories, teach Spanish, simulate a flute, or fling a monkey from a tree.

With the advent of touch-screen technology and faster wireless networks, the new competition and cool factor revolves around thousands of fun, quirky (and even useful) programs that run on the phones.

The popularity of such applications for Apple’s iPhone, the leader of the transformation, is driving a fierce competition among the makers of the BlackBerry and Palm devices, and even Google and Microsoft.

It heralds a new era in the allure of a mobile device — the phone is no longer a fashion statement but a digital bag of tricks.

Quoted: The Google Email Uploader is an open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.

This is the Kogan phone + WiFi, GPS and a 2-megapixel camera. $399 AUS is about $256 USD. Might be worth switching to.

Quoted: Introducing the revolutionary Kogan Agora PRO mobile phone with Android ™ software. The first mobile phone in Australia to feature Android ™ - the ground-breaking new open source mobile phone operating system pioneered by Google ™. Featuring fast 3G wireless technology, Wi-Fi, 2.0 MP Camera, GPS tracking, web browsing, and a host of other Google ™ applications, this is the must have mobile phone.

The second Google phone. Looks great! Still a lot bigger than my BlackBerry Pearl, though.

Quoted: Introducing the revolutionary Kogan Agora mobile phone with Android ™ software. The first mobile phone in Australia to feature Android ™ - the ground-breaking new open source mobile phone operating system pioneered by Google ™. Featuring fast 3G wireless technology, web browsing, and a host of other Google ™ applications, this is the must have mobile phone.

Profiling in GAE

Quoted: To profile your application's performance, first rename your application's main() function to real_main(). Then, add a new main function to your application, named profile_main()such as the one below:

Puzzazz got mentioned on the App Engine blog!

Refaving from Mike (thanks for finding it)

Two surprises-

Dave Schappell (Teach Street) authors a "reader blog" at the Seattle PI).

He covered Roy Leban's Puzzazz web site (started at the Google AppEngine Hack-a-thon this summer).