Week Eight: Cloud Computing

Here it is Saturday of Week 14 and I'm just now getting to Week 8's lesson.  By now I assume (Yes, I know what that word tends to do) that nearly everyone has moved on to something else.  Thus, I am not going to try to ask someone to "go back" and help me out with the collaborative portion of Week 8's activities.  Rather, I will take a little time to say what I did do and expound a bit on the advantages I can see to this "cloud computing" concept. I chose to use the Google product since I already had a Google account and G-Mail.  After walking through the suggestions and playing around with uploading a few documents it occurs to me that this product could also be used to keep files related to various projects you are working on to access from different computers ( home, work, the library, etc.) without having to haul around floppies or flash drives (assuming you have internet access.) I messed around a bit with the Scriblink.com white board and found I have the same problems with it as I do with a chalk board or regular white board (i.e. writing a level line) except that I do have somewhat better control of the piece of chalk or marker in the real world than I do trying to write with a mouse.  Click here to see my results pitiful as they are. I couldn't use Drop Box because I was working on this at work at I cannot download software from the internet on the computers at work.  After watching the little video on the Drop Box home page I think this product may have even greater potential than the Google product for organizing files and having access to them from anywhere except for the requirement to download software to whatever machine you are using to access the files at  Drop Box. As for the 30 Boxes web based calendar program, after reading the privacy statement and terms I think I'm going to mull using this one.  I guess this site and many of the others just seem to open my personal privacy space to a wider and wider audience until eventually I don't think there will be any privacy left.  I will however, save that subject for a rant another day.