DISQUS

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  • Jesse Stay · 9 months ago
    I think this is one of the first times I got first "like" on a LouisGray.com post. RSS can be so slow - I'm liking the real-time web ;-)
  • Louis Gray · 9 months ago
    I am amused that I can moderate your comment to delete it, but I can't make you "unlike" it.
  • Jesse Stay · 9 months ago
    Never!
  • Sandeep Arora · 9 months ago
    Very nice post. I'm a big believer of "The Cloud" . The Cloud encapsulates
    1) Software as a Service - Sakesforce
    2) Platform as a Service - Amazon - AWS
    3) API as a service - Google App Engine

    The secret source is the Terra Bytes of Data which companies are opening. We are now talking about "Serverless Companies" and "Serverless + DataLess Companies".
    Companies like Genentech and NYT are going to cloud.
    The time it takes to a Amazon Vitual Machines = 30 minutes.
    The Time it takes to setup the same power machines inside a corporation = 3 months + Costs.

    We have created a Visual Explanations Cloud Computing with 2 case studies.s
    http://vizedu.com/2008/12/cloud-computing/

    Thanks
    Sandeep Arora
    Architect of VizEdu.com
  • Nick Dingle · 9 months ago
    But otherwise, you're liking Disqus?
  • ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 9 months ago
    I don't know if you caught it, but Kevin Kelly presented his concept of "The One" computer with "cloud-books" used to interface with it over on TED.

    I love the quote from Marc... that is classic.
  • Chris White · 9 months ago
    What strikes me is that the term "cloud" has been used even before Web 1.0 took off. Specifically, I can remember the network guys at General Magic referring to the cloud, and a lot of the roving agent software they envisioned has still yet to come true. I guess we have to settle for getting excited about things as they become more real, even though they've been talked about for years. It's easier for the newcomers, since they've never heard it before.
  • Chris White · 9 months ago
    To continue the thought, I remember first starting out, hearing old-timers talk about things I was excited about in melancholy ways. it seemed so obvious to me that this was both exciting and the future, but they were jaded. I guess the key to success if figuring out how to keep the beginner's mind long enough for the time to be right for your ideas.
  • Chris White · 9 months ago
    "General Magic was nearly clairvoyant in their ability to predict the way people would use technology (predicting things such as ubiquitous email, everyone owning/using cell phones and devices, etc). The big, and fatal, assumption was that it would all happen on a proprietary network owned by AT&T/NTT commonly referred to as, "the cloud." The World Wide Web and Mosaic were just firing to life and these free-and-common answers to the same problems swept General Magic under the carpet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
  • birgerking · 9 months ago
    Great post, like the scepticism part!
    I think cloud is the perfect marketing word, because it discribes something nobody could explain, even scientists have unanswered questions about clouds. Cloud is a word equal to semantics: Continuous developing in small steps, no public break through. Someday we recognize "Huh! #blank is already established" - and go back to work on our semantic clouds...