Away in the cloud

I think I have my head around what cloud computing is all about now. The module readings were fine in theory but it all became much clearer after looking at some of the applications and working through the exercises. Loving Google Docs! I have been aware of it for some time but had never used it. I think this is an application I could see myself actually using - so much quicker and more convenient than emailing documents back and forth when you're working collaboratively on something. I guess some people might be concerned about not having their documents stored on their own computers. Does this bother you?

Am writing this post in Zoho Writer to see how it compares. I prefer Google Docs personally as the interface seems more straightforward to me. Both seem pretty easy to use though. Which do you prefer?

Google Calendar also looks quite good. Looks better than my Outlook Calendar and has more features e.g. there's a link from the location in your events through to Google Maps (cool!). Right, I am going to try posting this to my blog direct from Zoho. Let's see if it works...