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Cloud Computing Infographic

Cloud Computing comes up quite a bit lately and thought this was a good, basic Infographic explaining it all. (via Wikibon.org)

Via: What is Cloud Computing?

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Is the Cloud around the corner?

Michael Arrington recently updated the tale of his nascent hardware project, dubbed the “CrunchPad”. In short, it’s a tablet that just runs a web browser with a touchpad interface over wifi. The current incarnation runs Ubuntu linux and supports Flash. He specifically calls out Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Hulu, Wikipedia, Google Docs and Gmail as supported web apps. He claims he can hit the $200 price point.

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This could be a revolutionary product for the web development community. At $200, it aggressively competes in the netbook space, which was demonstrated to be deep during the holiday season. Although it doesn’t support a cellular connection, it also doesn’t come with a ~$700 plan cost hanging around its neck, and municipal wifi is only becoming more common. Rumors suggest that Apple thinks this sort of a device could be a serious product, based on word of a 9” iPod touch reportedly set for the end of the year.

If this device, or one substantially like it, were to hit store shelves by the ‘09 holiday season, it could instantly change the way the web is used. Specifically, hardware giants and media vendors alike have been striving for years to make the shift from web usage being “situational”, i.e. when you are sitting in front of your work computer to “ubiquitous”, i.e. anywhere and everywhere. The iPhone partially accomplishes this, and I feel that is why it has been so successful. Its killer app is Safari, not the App Store as so many have suggested. The CrunchPad could fill a similar niche that would be at least as large. For web developers, it would herald the much-discussed but slowly arriving cloud computing age.