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Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Chris White — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:14:00 -0000

"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/wik...

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Chris White — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:02:00 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Chris White — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:55:00 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

ChangeForge | Ken Stewart — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:28:40 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Nick Dingle — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:04:00 -0000

But otherwise, you're liking Disqus?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Sandeep Arora — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:43:50 -0000

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/c...

Thanks
Sandeep Arora
Architect of VizEdu.com

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Jesse Stay — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:02:00 -0000

Never!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Louis Gray — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:00:00 -0000

I am amused that I can moderate your comment to delete it, but I can't make you "unlike" it.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/02/web-two-dot-oh-dotcom-dot-cloud-colon.html

Jesse Stay — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:59:00 -0000

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 ;-)