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The geekheads at Google have taken web interactions to a new level. Yes Google has setup a 5 different social experiments in London Science Museum, which web users from around the world can control creatively and can see the live physical outcome. Try yourself at http://www.chromeweblab.com . This portal is based on WebGL and so you need Google Chrome to open it. When you enter the experiment you will be assigned a lab tag, something thats unique to you and is anonymous. You may sign in with your Google account and can associate the lab tag with your account. Lets have a look at each experiment. Universal Orchestra: Here you have two options to produce music along with other live users from around the world. Either you can make it by controlling actual musical instruments setup at London Museum by clicking on Play in Museum or you can do it so through virtual instruments by clicking on Play Online . But the latter lacks the flavour of real interaction. So once you enter in ...

That’s a pretty long blog title. Anyway that’s a beacon for those of you tired of testing your client application with MySQL database running locally in localhost:3306. I played all sort of querying and updating tricks between my local database and the application that I developed. But still felt incomplete without connecting my application to a MySQL server running remotely. I searched the web for such a service and found out that it is possible through Amazon Web Services . You need to create an account with a one year free tier plan for that. But further steps sounded too complicated. Somehow in my Java journey I found out an easiest way to do it. Let me introduce you the Cloudbees.com . But one limitation is that your database size should not exceed 5MB. Go to http://www.cloudbees.com/ and signup for a free account. You will be asked to provide custom domain name, which will be used to Sign in to your new Cloudbees account. In Home page click on Services tab. You will be sho...