Working In The Cloud General Edition

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+ guest84187e5 8 months ago
I am sorry I could not attend GC Barcamp3. It was great to run your presentation as a slidecast on http://www.slideshare.net/mrees/working-in-the-cloud-gene... It was great to be able to listen, pause it, and write these notes on the fly. A few comments:

• Larry Ellison of Oracle termed the phrase ’Network Computing’ back in the early 1990’s. The Cloud is exactly the implementation he foretold. It is arriving in the timeframe most people then agreed it would take to reach fruition.
• Office Live requirements: ’Internet connection, a Web browser, and a Windows Live ID with a valid email inbox’. It should work under Firefox, irrespective of the platform you are on. However ’Some features may require a browser that supports ActiveX.’ I would be very wary of getting tied into it like 99% of the planet has with MS Office, for exactly the same reasons that MS Office is now such a pain.
• Documents: I understand that security of your cloud-based documents is no problem as long as:
∘ Your machine is not infected before you visit a site (so just run Linux), &
∘ The site is running securely, eg https:, whereby the traffic is fully encrypted. (If this were not secure the entire world’s banking and finance system would collapse!)
• Skydrive and data volumes: The adverse effect of the Howard government’s foolish & clueless selloff of the national communications infrastructure, by privatising it as Telstra, is the problem, and will continue to be so for Australia until something significant is done to correct the situation.
• Google Notes: I use Google Bookmarks, and then Blogger for extra notes (ie make a blost post) if a short comment is insufficient.
• Mindmeister: I found it a very nice collaboration tool for occasional remote-group brainstorming. Your simple slide content produced by this could be seen as better than the unnecessarily bloated overslick slides that people create with Powerpoint. Personally, I like to see slides exactly as you have presented them: textual, simple bullets and just one per 3 to 10 minutes, unless thereis an occasional strong need for a special slide to display a special concept/picture.
• Youtube: Convert to the correct size and check it yourself before you upload.
• Pipes, Silverlight: thanks, must look further into them.
• Import export: the common format is whatever xml describes, ie anything at all. We just need better utilities to read and display xml schemas, so we can grab the info out that we think we want.
• I have further refined the number of services compared to the full list you have presented, to minimise redundancy, and end up with a shortlist that suits me. Many others will obviously choose a slightly different combination.

ps. I wrote this using the Tomboy desktop applet (on Linux), as I listened to the slidecast. I used it for the trivial but key reasons: I knew the hotkey to quickly pop it up & another (Alt-tab) to switch in and out of it. Otherwise I could have written it in Google Docs or email, but that’s a bit of overkill and was too slow to start at the time.
pps: hmmm i can edit this: good - Regards, David Tangye
+ guestf5dcf2 8 months ago
That microphone gadget of yours works great! Even picking up the audience questions nicely. It was a great talk and I wanted to see your slides again to get some of the names of the apps you are using.

Thanks for sharing this.

@SaschaV