Wayne Pan

Dave Winer offers a compelling reason on why Google would offer it’s Web Services (AWS competitor) for free. (That is if they actually release one like I predicted for this year.)

The basic premise is that if GWS were free, Google could reap the benefits of having a whole heap of developers tied into their platform. After which acquiring a company would be much less cheaper if they’re already tied into the Google cloud. I can see Google making a move like this for the normal user but they would eventually have to charge for larger customers. After all they already provide 6.5 gb of storage space for gmail users but providing unlimited GWS usage is a hit not even the mighty Google can take.

As most everybody knows by now the IE team will increase IE8’s concurrent connections to 6 (from 2). Now there are rumblings that the next FF3 beta will follow suit and increase the default to 6.The HTTP/1.1 standard recommends 2 which at the time made sense.

In the world of broadband, limiting connections per host to 2 makes little sense. Us fronteers have been forced to do subdomain hacks, css sprites, etc to deal with this. I’m psyched.

Steve Souders also has a good wrap up along trying to answer the question of will this break the internet?