WHAT COULD OUR MEMBERS DO IN THE CLOUD?
Do you think this is a topic for
PCCC or is everyone too entrenched to change their style?
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Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath, offers a video tour of 'cloud computing' - its mysteries and opportunities. Follow this link
http://www.rpath.com/corp/cloudinenglish to the video.
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Cloud computing for the individual user:Topics – off the top of my head without research- Organize, edit, and share photos
Picassa
Shutterfly - Email
Free services (Hotmail, etc)
ISP webmail
Domain- or corporate-hosted webmail - Word processing/spreadsheets
Google apps
Other sources - still beta and may come and go - Financial bookkeeping
Quicken online
Online banking - Data storage
Windows Live, Yahoo, Google – all beta or experimental
Third-tier such as diino.com – many unreliable
Primary providers – Amazon S3 – still very techie - Web surfing – duh!
Add your comments and how you live totally in the hosted environment.
