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There are already 33 comments here, and not a lot of agreement. "The Cloud" just seems to me to be more marketing sucker-bait, basically (Web 2.0)2.0, I wonder
by billswift 16y ago
There are already 33 comments here, and not a lot of agreement. "The Cloud" just seems to me to be more marketing sucker-bait, basically (Web 2.0)2.0, I wonder what they are going to call ((Web 2.0)2.0)2.0?
- jnoller 16y agoI'm biased; but I suspect that much like "Web 2.0" there is some truth to the "marketing". Web 2.0 saw the rise of user generated content, richer/leaner and more interactive websites and applications. I suspect the "cloud" trend will continue to allow us to abstract more of our computing resources, and make computing/application construction pieces more of a utility/commodity then they ever have been. So despite it being used a bit too much in marketing - I think there's some fire behind all the smoke, and dismissing it simply because marketing people are blowing it around a lot runs the risk of ignoring a major technological shift.
- billswift 16y agoThere is always some truth in effective marketing; like all good lies, it uses truth in the service of falsehood.