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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.

- Best Buy's Giftag
- BuddyPoke!
- Pixverse
- Hyperic CloudStatus

## 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

## 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!

## Pixverse

Pixverse, recently acquired by Hi5, chose App Engine because it made development easy and hassle free. Pixverse has two apps, Pix Chat and Pix Wall, both built on App Engine. Pix Chat lets you chat with friends across the web within your profile page. Pix Wall gives you a "wall" on your profile where friends can leave notes, post pictures, add stickers. PixChat was ported to App Engine in under 3 hours.

View video | Visit Pixverse

## 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

## More

To see more applications built on App Engine, visit the Application Gallery.