Clouds
Am I missing something with this whole exciting cloud metaphor? It sounds like something we invented awhile ago that I personally like to call the Internet.
What *is* interesting, IMHO, is the advancements being made in the area of autonomic and elastic computing. Furthermore, the idea of utility computing is a fascinating one to me.
What got me looking into “cloud computing”? I saw Robert Collins discussing it in #bzr the other day and using Amazon’s EC2 services to run bazaar’s test suite (which I understand to be a very comprehensive).
I used to play and develop on muds back in the day and I’m wondering if EC2 is a viable solution to host such a text based game. I’ll have to look into it and maybe use it as an excuse to try EC2 out myself 
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I don’t know when cloud computing was defined, but the first mention of it I recall was related to Amazon EC2.
But I recently received the following admonishment from my organization’s technical staff instructor:
“*Anything* that could be handled with a thin client, from tagging photos with Flickr to manipulating those photos with Adobe’s online version of Photoshop constitutes cloud computing. Or how about adding a Twitter post with a cell phone?”