Everything “In The Cloud”

Here’s what I use my computer for:

  • Browsing the web
  • Email
  • Twitter, Facebook, …
  • Listening to music
  • Watching video
  • Chat/call/skype
  • Developing software

I realized that all of these take place “in the cloud” (distributed on multiple servers across on the internet) today. There’s very little vital data that I still store locally on my harddrive.

Browsing the web, email, twitter, Facebook is all online, all this data is in the cloud. I do most of my music listening on Spotify, which also stores my playlists, and have my iTunes Music directory backed-up on Dropbox. Recently I have been uploading almost all my documents to Google Docs as well as some video content (which I can now stream from my Docs account). Chatting and calling is also all online, using Skype, IRC and Google Talk.

Last Thursday I started my job at Cloud9 IDE, Inc. who build the Cloud9 IDE — which, you guessed it, enables you to develop software in the cloud.

I think I can truthfully say that if my laptop breaks down right now, it really wouldn’t matter. I wouldn’t lose any important data.

None.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 4th, 2011 at 15:11 by Zef You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  • http://twitter.com/srabbelier Sverre Rabbelier

    You’re really just tempting fate there aren’t you.

  • http://zef.me Zef Hemel

    You think this is less reliable than storing stuff on a local hard drive?

  • http://twitter.com/vitronprince Vitron Prince

    i think he means the laptop m8 lol

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  • http://www.istartedsomething.com/ Long Zheng

    You’ve got an extra “w” in the link to Cloud9IDE :)