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Gotta love marketing on the ‘net…

A couple months ago Brit put together a tech demo using Google’s App Engine so that we could wrap our heads around how it fits into our ever expanding toolkit.  Brave New Fiction spawned from a few hours of Python wrangling and has led to some very interesting conversations.

It’s funny how a small little app can take off on the Internet… The app instantly conjures up visions of Twitter, but the only real similarity is the 140 character limit imposed on it’s users.  BNF has gained a decent following and garnered a lot of exposure from some interesting crowds.  We were recently interviewed by MIT Technology Review for the Sept/Oct issue about our experience with App Engine and how we planned to use it in the future.  Google even featured the site on it’s featured application list.

All of this free exposure from something as simple as a tech demo.  Rock On Internet!

Just so it’s out there - we plan on using app engine for some of our passion projects, mainly because we both really like working in python and we hope people get passionate about the projects we work on and test the scalability of google’s systems :)  The lack of signed certificate SSL support is still one of the main factors limiting us using it for our commercial projects but I’m sure it’s coming soon.

Update: Erica Naone (Asst Editor @ MIT Technology Review) posted a brief review on her blog - maybe this is enough to get us off our butts to continue development?  Time will tell…