I found the Cloud playground an extremely useful tool to get acquainted with python scripts and app development. Good work here: https://cloud-playground.appspot.com/playground/

The effect of technology on young minds

Having grown up in a time when mobile phones were just started to become common, I cannot relate to kids having ipads, phones etc as one of their necessary toys. Watching babies playing ipad games, makes me wonder whether this use of technology is good for their development skills at such a tender age.

I am not convinced that this is the next big step for a technology led society. Maybe we need to compartmentalise technology and its role in our lives.

Looking at legal issues across web services found an interesting article
http://www.w3.org/P3P/

Interesting article on the need for cloud brokerage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinjackson/2012/08/12/cloud-management-broker-the-next-wave-in-cloud-computing/?goback=%2Eanb_3689334_*2_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1

usefule slides or role of brokers

http://www.slideshare.net/Intel-ASIP/gartners-hype-cycle-for-cloud-service-brokerage-intel-csb-enablement

Interesting papers to read:
For trust situational:
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/marketing/download/trust_framework_model.pdf 
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1501494
For risk situational:
http://www.performanceandroi.com/uploads/Ch_5_Sit_Risk_Analysis_Tool_Set_Template.pdf

Some useful Journal list:

• Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
• International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)
• Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)
• Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)
• Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)
• Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)
• International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)