Everyone, from casual users to major corporations, is taking advantage of the newest technological trend of cloud computing. If you’re not sure what the cloud actually is, don’t worry too much about it.
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The whole point of this methodology is that you, as a user, don’t have to understand! If you’re anxious to be in the cloud, here are some popular ways to get there:
Share Your Thoughts Without a Personal Website
If you’d love to post your pictures, articles, or innermost thoughts, there’s no need to bother with creating your own site. Simply register for an account with the new, cloud-based Quiet Write site. This site allows Internet users to publish their work online and even include pictures.
Hate Writing a Resume? Let the Cloud Do It!
If you’re completely honest, you probably update your online profiles more often than your resume. Instead of rushing through this task when you find a great job opportunity, let the cloud help! Use one of the many free web-apps to create a polished summary of your job experience or, if you’re a LinkedIn power user, use their Resume Builder app to pull in information from your LinkedIn profile. Like most of us, you’re probably never quite satisfied with the final version of your resume. Another cloud application, RezScore, can analyze your final draft and tell you how to improve it.
A Disaster-Proof Backup Plan
Unless you like to live dangerously, you make a habit of backing up your important files to disk or an external drive. The only problem with this plan is that disks and drives can be damaged or lost. To be completely disaster proof, take advantage of one of the cloud services for online backups. With off-site storage that can be accessed from any location, you won’t have to worry about a thing.
Create Your Own Social Network
If you and your friends are always IM’ing or Tweeting, why not create your own dedicated social network? Consider it a private e-party that no outsiders can crash! Although Teambox is supposed to be a cloud-based team management project, it works just as well for a group of friends who want to hang out online with a guarantee of absolute privacy. With this network, you’ll never have to worry about anyone outside your inner circle finding out about your personal activities.
The Cloud Can Make Social Network Management Easy
Even though it feels like everything on your favorite social network will be there forever, partly because it is in the cloud, you never know when it could all disappear. If you want to make sure you have this information no matter what happens, back it up on another cloud-based site.
Need to clean up your Twitter account? Manage Flitter is waiting in the cloud to help. If you’re not too scared to check out your Twitter usage statistics or your public Facebook information, check out Think-Up, a cloud-based social network monitor.
If some of these products feel familiar, you’re not mistaken. Over the past few years, we’ve been living more and more of our online lives with our heads in the cloud!
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Nice one Jen. I am a bit newbie about this cloud apps thing. Great article though.
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Hey Jen,
Cloud computing is definitely a trend that I have seen gain a lot of popularity recently. However, I am one of them that is not completely sure what the cloud actually is. But you don’t need to know what exactly cloud is to be impressed the benefits you have listed here.
I think the most impressive benefit is being able to use a cloud-based team management project like Teambox to create your own personal social network. Now I can see why the cloud is gaining so much popularity so fast. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Jen,
I will try to make my own Social Network using Teambox for my friends group. I hope it will make my friends happy.
I have a question that you have said that we can make back ups of our data and it can be retrieved from any where using internet but then at the end you said that “Clouds may be disappeared at any time”. To make multiple back-ups is not a solution. Is it?
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Yes, I didn’t know about these apps. ManageFlitter looks like a very good one. I’m testing it right now.
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Hey Jen,
You know, you are onto something with cloud computing. I don’t know if you know (lol) but Google is planning or they started to develop an operating system that works entirely in the cloud.
How would you like every computer in the world to be your own, or at least have the same things as your have? Well Google plans to do this by practically installing the operating system in the cloud and the programs are hosted in the cloud. This way, you can go to any computer in the world that has the client version of Google OS log in and you are practiclly on your own computer.
Of course this method has a drawback, you need a high speed internet connection in order for the OS to function properly but don’t you agree that this would be cool ?
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I am not that familiar of cloud apps but this sounds helpful. I might consider this. Thanks for the share Jen.
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This is a great article. But could someone write about cloud computing for blogs using amazon? I’d really appreciate it
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I think the cloud concept is starting to really take off, Jen. I love the Microsoft commercials which have the tagline, “to the cloud.” It’s not just about your blog or website. It’s expanding your message and persona utilizing numerous sites, apps, blogs, and social media networks. You gave some great examples of how someone can get their message “to the cloud” without even owning a site of their own.
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