Oct 27 2008

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

Published by Rich at 6:40 am under Business, Business (web), Cloud, Enterprise Web, KM (enterprise), KM (personal), Social Web

In this excellent commentary, Tim O’Reilly describes how he sees three types of cloud computing:

  1. Utility computing ie. the Amazon API
  2. Platform as a Service ie. Salesforce.com
  3. Cloud-based end-user applications ie. Facebook, Linkedin etc

Then he discusses how power laws work in the online environment:

Excerpt: Understanding the dynamics of increasing returns on the web is the essence of what I called Web 2.0. Ultimately, on the network, applications win if they get better the more people use them. As I pointed out back in 2005, Google, Amazon, ebay, craigslist, wikipedia, and all other other Web 2.0 superstar applications have this in common

Read the complete article here

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