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# App Engine Developer Profiles

App Engine makes it easy to build and scale web applications with Google's robust and reliable infrastructure. Learn how businesses are taking advantage of App Engine to quickly scale their applications to millions of users.

- Socialwok
- Best Buy's Giftag
- Gigapan
- LingoSpot
- BuddyPoke!
- LifeAware
- Walk Score
- EZAsset
- Caucho Technology
- 3scale networks
- Hyperic CloudStatus

## Socialwok

Socialwok provides enterprise feed-based sharing and collaboration on the Google Apps platform. Organizations can use their existing Google Apps accounts to login into Socialwok and create a social network for their domains to share Google Docs, Google Calendars, Google Spreadsheets and other Google objects in feeds. Socialwok uses App Engine for Java to scale our web service to web audiences and mobile users.

View video | Visit Socialwok

## Best Buy's Giftag

Giftag, Best Buy's browser add-on for clipping, saving, and sharing web page snippets, launched on App Engine just before Black Friday last year. Using the hProduct open standard and App Engine's datastore API, Giftag enables users to add items to one or more wishlists, then share these via the App Engine-hosted front-end or Facebook.

View video | Visit Best Buy's Giftag

## Gigapan

GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount, image stitching software, and a new type of website Gigapan.org for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail found within them. GigaPan uses Google App Engine for its website, publishes explorable gigapixel imagery on Google Earth in KML format, allows interactive placement and orientation of imagery in Google Earth via KML network links, makes use of the Google Maps API for exploring images by location, and measures traffic with Google Analytics.

View video | Visit Gigapan

## LingoSpot

Lingospot provides services for online publishers to help readers discover more of their content, including virally-distributed widgets for related videos and articles, as well as smart discovery links within context. We use App Engine to scale our services to Web audiences limitlessly, ranging from a million+ users in 30 minutes at large sites, to supporting hundreds of smaller sites that have installed our viral widgets, without worrying an iota about provisioning capacity for the traffic and growth.

View video | Visit LingoSpot

## BuddyPoke!

BuddyPoke, the most popular OpenSocial application, chose App Engine for scalability. Users create 3D avatars which they can use to express their moods or interact with their friend's avatars (poking them, etc.). BuddyPoke has scaled to over 12 million users in a few short months.

View video | Visit BuddyPoke!

## LifeAware

LifeAware is a mobile application that runs on the Android and iPhone platforms. It allows you to not only share your location with the friends you have authorized, but also set up zones that notify you when your friends have entered or left an area such as school or work. LifeAware chose App Engine as the core of the app's infrastructure for its scalability, ease of development and manageability. LifeAware also leverages the power of the Android platform as well as Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit, and the AJAX Search API.

View video | Visit LifeAware

## Walk Score

Walk Score is a project of Front Seat, a civic software company in Seattle. Walk Score uses Google App Engine for the Walk Score API that serves Walk Score data to millions of real estate listings daily. The Walk Score website uses Google Local Search for our scoring algorithm and Google Maps for displaying walkability of addresses and heat map views of neighborhoods and cities.

View video | Visit Walk Score

## EZAsset

EZasset by StrongTech is an asset management application for your business. It utilizes several Google APIs such as Google Calendar for maintenance tracking for assets and Google Docs for easy importing and exporting of information for assets. The Google Maps API is integrated to give visual representation of a physical location where assets are stored. We are running a beta version of our software on App Engine.

View video | Visit EZAsset

## Caucho Technology

Caucho has created a special version of its Quercus PHP in Java implementation to run on the Google App Engine. This technology provides the ability to run PHP on the App Engine and integrate with Java frameworks.

View video | Visit Caucho Technology

## 3scale networks

3scale networks enables Internet-based businesses with a secure, scalable and efficient SaaS platform to manage their APIs and reduce time-to-market. 3scale provides a python plug-in that integrates seamlessly to App Engine so that developers can put all their resources into their API's core functionalities. User management, access control, billing and payments can be easily externalized with 3scale for those APIs that run on top of App Engine.

View video | Visit 3scale networks

## Hyperic CloudStatus

CloudStatus BETA provides visibility into two of the world's most popular clouds, Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services. CloudStatus groups reports on performance and health statistics by each service. Other Hyperic product enable App Engine developers to monitor their own applications.

View video | Visit Hyperic CloudStatus