Version 1.6, Last Updated March 3, 2010
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Are you ready to create mashups with the Presto Cloud (Community Edition)? Or maybe you were looking at the 'Mashup Wall' and wanted to rate/comment/clone one of the mashups? Either way, here's what you need to know:
Your MDC account also gives you access to the helpful stuff on the MDC, like videos, code samples and support forums. That's some of the best advice, tips and support available to mashup makers anywhere.
If that's all you need to know, click here to join the MDC or click here to login into the Presto Cloud (Community Edition). Of course we know there's lots more you might want to know. So read on if you still have questions.
The rest of this page answers the following questions:
If you joined the MDC before February 28, 2010, we created a Presto Cloud (Community Edition) account for you. The username/password match your MDC username/password. Click here if you need to reset your MDC password.
And there's one important note: upon your initial login you will be asked to change your password for the Presto Cloud (Community Edition). This is just a little extra security for your safety.
The ‘Cloud’ is the Internet. ‘Cloud Computing’ is running applications (usually your own) on Internet-based computing resources (usually not your own). Although you may not know it, you probably do some of this already.
There are lots of good articles about the Cloud, both techy and non-techy. The Wikipedia is a good place to start and HowStuffWorks has a great set of articles on the topic too.
‘Presto on the Cloud’ is JackBe’s award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Server running on on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, often called ‘Amazon EC2’. We are offering this SaaS-style mashup experience to help you instantly create mashups. We wanted to make it as easy as possible to mash with Presto and now you can start mashing in seconds.
There is no cost. As we mentioned earlier, you simply need to join the Mashup Developer Community. Keep in mind that the Presto Cloud (Community Edition) is governed by the Cloud License Agreement.
For its first cloud implementation JackBe chose Amazon’s EC2, one of the most mature and robust cloud platforms available today. It was very easy to deploy Presto on EC2 and now we have a scalable, secure cloud platform supporting our scalable, secure mashup platform.
The Presto Cloud (Community Edition) and Presto Developer Edition are the same software. The real difference comes from the Internet itself: with the Presto Cloud (Community Edition) you won’t be able to connect to databases and services that exist behind your corporate firewall. If you want to mash your corporate data, download a copy of the Presto Developer Edition from the Mashup Developer Community and run it inside the safe confines of your corporate firewall.
Only you can see what you create unless you make it available to others. But if you do want to share with other users of the Presto Cloud (Community Edition), there are 3 things you can share: ‘Mashables’ (often called ‘Services’ or ‘Data Sources’), Mashups, and ‘Mashlets’ (often called ‘Widgets’). You can read more about these 3 things on our Blog.
Here’s how to share Mashables, Mashups and Mashlets with other users. Note that this information is also covered in the introductory video on the Presto Cloud (Community Edition) homepage:
The Mashup Wall is a way to showcase your mashup efforts! Once your mashup has been published to the Mashup Wall other community members can view, rate, comment and even 'view' and ‘clone’ your work.
What's 'clone'? Specifically, other community members will be able to interact with your mashup on the Mashup Wall via 2 buttons: ‘View it in Wires’ and 'Clone'. 'View' will load a read-only copy your mashup into Presto Wires on the Cloud. That user can then better understand how you built your mashup. 'Clone' will let them create a copy of your mashup that they can immediately customize to their needs.
This is true mashup collaboration. This type of shared knowledge enables the entire community to leverage and enhance everyone’s mashup efforts.
Presto is the most secure enterprise mashup platform available today. However, Presto Cloud (Community Edition) is a public mashup community and we strongly recommend you do not use sensitive personal or corporate data in your mashups.
JackBe is very lucky to have a number of generous partners with interesting data. We’ve published over 200 of them to give you cool and useful data sources to mash with including:
Yes, if you have the Presto Excel Connector or Presto Studio from your Presto Developer Edition 2.7, you can connect them to the Presto Cloud (Community Addition). If you don’t have them and want to try them out, you can get them here.
You only need a browser. We recommend the following browsers for the best experience:
Yes! Contact JackBe at sales@jackbe.com.