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Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech?
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."
I can't transfer my yahoo to my twitter, this cloud computing has gone wild.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. This is not what I look for in hardware.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
So data checks in but doesn't check out?
That's more like the Roach Motel.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Which one is that? the normal one exports all your data to hackers.ru at the click of a mouse!
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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...
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.