How about sharing stuff with me?

The Cloud Computing model provides the ideal way to share information instantly with anyone. Most people are familiar with the photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa, BlueMelon, Shutterfly and a slew of other offerings that allow you to post your images in the Cloud and allow others to access to them. Its an example of a sweet way to allow a lot of folks to get to your images without emailing them files that are so big that it would take forever if everyone to download them. With these services you can view the images without downloading them and if you want one the is a variety of ways to get them. Since they are managed on another server, you never have to worry about loosing them when your disk crashes or you accidentally delete them. Its pure value. That's what I like.

With Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentation or Forms; you can get a link that allows anyone you choose (or not) to view any one of these and edit them it you want them to. This is really neat stuff. The most current version is always available to the viewer and for collaboration this approach is a necessity. Its just a nightmare to try to distribute and maintain documents that are constantly being updated.

The evolution is clear. We are not going to be storing stuff on our computers in the future unless we are just paranoid about security. Personally I'm looking forward to this. The last time my disk crashed it took me a week to get all of my files back. Say goodbye to heart burn.