Scale, cost effectiveness and pay for use are terms we're used to hear about cloud computing but like Google, 'search and access' are bound to be its keywords.
We can't entirely fault Marissa Mayer for saying that it's not what you know but what you can find out. First of all, she's from Google and and we all know what Google is really good at. So what better way than to remind us about their product's value again, as if web supremacy isn't enough. She writes,
In the ongoing case regarding the recent hacks against Google and possibly a couple more of technology companies, one thing becomes clear, harm now comes cloaked in tech disguise.
This could not be possibly more earth-shaking than the recent tragedy in Haiti but Gartner's timing of releasing it's predictions and timetables deserve it's own Richter-scale measure.
Venture capitalists aside, Mark Zuckerberg knows who his real friends are and gives Apache Software Foundation $40,000 as a Gold sponsor.
He may not be concious of it while inside his dorm room back then but definitely, the spirit of open source was hovering and fully present as David Recordon writes:
Poised for growth in 2010? Keep three horizons within your sights.
It is already a psychological victory for companies to be able to leave 2009 pretty much functioning and slightly unscathed. Considering the doomsday predictions back early of last year, 2010 is a whiff of fresh air and optimism that the worst has passed and that new opportunities beckon.
This is brain spa!
Thus said Joel Yuvienco, team member and organizer of the first TED event, albeit independently organized, to be held in the country. Judging from the attentiveness showered by the crowd, it sure feels like a refreshing break from the regular programming brought about by both traditional forms of media and traditional learning formats as well.
I'm pretty sure that there will be more things to be said and written about this seminal event but for all intents and purposes, let me share my ode to it.
As we speak, the term 'cloud computing' is still adding (or dropping) definitions. Just maybe, like the fluffy clouds that take whatever shape our imagination conjures when we look up the sky, we could do better using images.
A Cloud Computing Venn Diagram
Not everything will move into the cloud, but the cloud will move into everything. - Nick Carr
In 2002, BBC ran an article about the fact that internet sites, back then at 32 million, was about to drop more than grow.
"For only the second time ever, an authoritative monthly survey of the number of sites on the net has found fewer sites online than in the previous month. The fall has been put down to a drop in the number of registered domains. But between November and December 2001, the number of sites on the web fell by 182,142.