Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? 250
Prolific blogger and open source enthusiast Matt Asay ponders whether cloud computing may be the Hotel California of tech. It seems that data repositories in the form of Googles and Facebooks are very easy to dump data into, but can be quite difficult to move data between. "I say this because even for companies, like Google, that articulate open-data policies, the cloud is still largely a one-way road into Web services, with closed data networks making it difficult to impossible to move data into competing services. Ever tried getting your Facebook data into, say, MySpace? Good luck with that. Social networks aren't very social with one other, as recently noted on the Atonomo.us mailing list. For the freedom-inclined among us, this is cause for concern. For the capitalists, it's just like Software 1.0 all over again, with fat profits waiting to be had. The great irony, of course, is that it's all built with open source."
Is Yahoo! the Facebook of webmail? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't transfer my yahoo to my twitter, this cloud computing has gone wild.
Yes (Score:2, Funny)
If you mean a big hit that everyone knows.
Ever tried ... (Score:3, Funny)
No, and I never tried fucking a styrofoam sheep while doing underwater welding either.
Re:Facebook/Myspace != cloud computing (Score:4, Funny)
It's the warm smell of colitas, a plant, not of coitus. ;)
Perhaps not the best analogy. (Score:5, Funny)
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. This is not what I look for in hardware.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
So data checks in but doesn't check out?
That's more like the Roach Motel.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
Which one is that? the normal one exports all your data to hackers.ru at the click of a mouse!
Re:It's really all the same anyway... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yes (Score:3, Funny)
No. You have to wait for a long guitar solo to finish before you can look at your address book.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
Oh that's the Hotel CA reference.
I was thinking that I can stab it with my steely knife, but I just can't kill the beast...
Re:Simple (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)
And I was thinking along the lines of "This could be heaven, or this could be hell".
Cloud computing is eerily like the music industry, more news at 11!
Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Ya'll down with OPS.
Re:Simple (Score:1, Funny)
You can check out any time you like...
But you can NEVER leave.
Re:Yes (Score:2, Funny)
No kidding. Now that I know he was singing about Cloud computing it's a total downer.
Re:Facebook/Myspace != cloud computing (Score:1, Funny)
Well, 'colitas' in the song is referring to cannabis, so it could be at least slightly related to 'cloud computing'...