Archive for the 'Cloud' Category

Dec 14 2008

Credit where credit is due… Evernote is a great app

Published by Rich under Cloud, Folksonomy, KM (personal), Mobile, Tagging

EvernoteChoosing a key notetaking application is no small matter for an obsessive like me. For a long time I used Texnotes and similar nesting tree based solutions.

I tried Evernote when it first started out but didn’t like the emphasis on the timeline navigation. Recently I returned on the strength of the updated desktop client and the great reviews the iPhone app kept receiving. Evernote synchronises from any internet connected client and if there’s no connection the update is held in a pending state.

As the number of my imported notes increased, navigation was no problem, the tagging and search filters are very well implemented - I use Evernote every day and highly recommend it.
Read about Evernote desktop and iPhone here

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Oct 27 2008

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

Published by Rich 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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