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Can he live in the cloud for more than one week?

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Don’t know about you guys, but I’m looking forward to see what Christopher Dawson will write after he spends one week living in the cloud and if he will remain in the cloud or return to his normal e-mail client and word documents saved in his hard drive. This is an interesting experience because he will tell us, from his experience, if the online scaled down versions of software like Office and others are sufficient (and maybe even better) for most documents we write.

Widget development for TV and for us all

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The recent agreement between Yahoo and Samsung is very interesting for us tech guys. Will we be able to create new applications (and make money) for TV?  Will this extend the reach of YouTube and create more market for others in the same market (like Joost, etc.) and even for other companies (like Microsoft, Facebook, etc.)?

The answer for me for both questions is yes, although I think that this will take time to accomplish because we have many TV brands (with different hardware and software) and widget platforms (from Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc.) and  they also need to come on board and make agreements between them.

But if we start to see many different APIs (one for each TV/widget platform) we will be faced with a problem because the effort to build óur killer application will significantly increase. A OpenSocial like effort would speed up things to the benefit of us all.

Cloud player acquired by SUN

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In my my first post I asked the question “What new applications will it bring?” but as many as you know, at this time we are already seeing new applications to pop up.

One of them is QLayer that sells Virtual Private DataCenter (VPDC). SUN has acquired it recently so the interest in the cloud keeps growing.

Geeks and entrepreneurs, its time to build your cloud company and offer yourselfs to big players!!

Is this Cloud thing something new?

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For my first post here I going to answer this question (sort of):

To be honest I was skeptical about Cloud Computing:
Having seen in that in the past some acronyms and hypes showing up I think its natural.
One of them was Ajax. Ajax is just creating one word to sum a bunch of technologies: (X)HTML + DOM + CSS + Javascript. Don’t get me wrong, I think that we need the acronyms, they are useful for communication but they don’t necessary add anything new.

One other acronym that I found interesting was ASP (Application Service Provider). ASP at first seemed to me just a way to say that we would sell our same desktop applications as a service. It was not a new technology, a new application or a new standard but just a new revenue model. Was this a small change? At first I thought so, but then I realized that this was a shift from the normal way of doing things and that opened the door for new companies that started building applications from scratch for the internet.
At that time someone (don’t remember who) called this new companies ASP2. This acronym had a short life (thankfully!) and the term Software as a Service (and the acronym SaaS) appeared.

Affer SaaS, other related acronyms started to pop up: SaaS, HaaS, PaaS, etc. and for me personally I need to figure out if they are bringing something new. In the future I will write something about them.

Right now I’m interest in writing about Could Computing. So what is it? Is just a new name?
For me Could Computing is more than just a new name, its again an interesting shift from the normal way we currently developed and sell software. This new term is not just the sum of several technologies but a change of paradigm that brings a lot of questions with it: What new applications will it bring? What new revenue models will appear? How will developers use it and how will they adapt? Will customers see any benefits? Who will be the big players in this field?

Bellow you can see some links that show some useful information about the Cloud:
- Demystifying Cloud Computing (sent by Paulo)
- Cloud in Plain English
- Cloud computing