Tech pundits chime in on “what is cloud computing?”

Cloud Computing is one of our favorite subjects here at the Third Pipe. If you were to ask any of our contributors to define it, you’ll get a different answer. To me it’s the web itself, but a more timely definition would be anything that extends beyond the delivery of static content. The new wave of web based apps has taken that definitintion to an extremes and is creating a new wave of extremely powerful tools to the individual that were once only available to large institutions. the next wave will empower the individual with even greater capabilities.

Rob Boothby of Joyent interviewed more than a dozen technology wonks, including Steve Gillmor, Matt Mullenweg, Tim O’Reilly, Kevin Marks, Rafe Needleman, Stowe Boyd, Brian Solis and myself, at the Web 2.0 Expo, to answer the question, “What is Cloud Computing ?” (Dan Farber’s Cnet Blog)