Squeeze the Cloud to fit into your hand

How could we do this strange thing – squeeze something so large as a cloud, and  specially if we want that the result will fit into the palm of our hand? First we must remember that Cloud Computing is  as large as we could do it, or better, as large as we could use it. Cloud Computing is all about  applications and how they could fit in our daily life, work, etc.

This is exactly what Palm thought about it, although I suppose that they specifically didn’t had the Cloud Computing paradigm in their mind when they started the development process of Palm webOS.

The integrated way that Palm webOS uses Cloud Computing information (user contacts, calendar, etc), in  addition with the way web OS SDK (Mojo) will allow developers to create applications as a part of the Cloud – using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, will allow Palm products to be seen as an efficient and user centric  Cloud Computing approach or employment.

News and details about Palm platform are yet scarce, but the concept and the Palm presentation at CES 2009 are very  promising.  As usualy, we have a lot of skeptics, but this time we have strong reasons for this skepticism, Palm was expert in doing showcases and presentations that they wouldn’t be able to accomplish.

But this time, if Palm won’t be able to do it, I believe that someone will. This “Cloud on your hand” approach is definitely a thing that users will want and love.

As another example of developments in this area is the work done by www.jolicloud.com. You can find more about their work in the TechCrunch post (thanks Luis for this link). And finally we shouldn’t forget the visionary work done by the eyeOS project.