Anyone can write about what is coming off of the lips of the keynoters and panelists. What I’m going to post is what stuck, since leaving. Maybe it’s a clever idea or I just don’t want the pressure of having to write when on the road!
The network cloud errrr I mean cloud computing is in (or back). In 1974 I helped the Fortune 500 implement “Excel” type applications accessed remotely via 110 and 300 baud dial up computing in a language called APL. Centralized software offered as a service. What a concept…well it actually is, particularly now with comparatively infinite bandwith and disc storage. A $50 3 GIG thumb drive worth of storage in CompuServe’s 1977 version of SAAS cost the their commercial customers $50,000 PER MONTH.
The real difference is the FREE part and the potential of seemingly unlimited bandwidth and disc storage, and the blurring of media and mediums. What can Google or the next Googlettes think up next?
Social networking…or as I would say super-group unsuspecting-colaboration networking businesses. Think behive (plagarized behive from “We smarter than me” front cover). Networks will be the force on the Internet, no longer will a web site be able to stand alone. Soon dead will be brochureware sites and “find me and buy from me” sites. What’s in…remote volunteer data entry, network news reporters replaced by YouTube, remote volunteer quality reviews, encylopedias, software and….
Summing it up: Clowds and Crouds(c) drive the new Internet models.
