Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The real Web 2.0. I have to agree with Nick that what Google and Microsoft are up to is way more interesting that all the "cutesy" Web 2.0 services. Maybe because they all appear to be yet another social networking (YASN) service. But the infrastructure to deliver next generation apps is more "manly" stuff. Why? Because we want the "computing on the cloud" experience to be scaleable and highly available AND if we are storing our "digital lives" on the cloud we also want the cloud to be "Katrina proof"--i.e. connected to other clouds when (not if) the inevitable next disaster happens. All of this requires large data centers and therefore bricks and mortar. The fact that (presumably) permanent jobs are added to these communities is also interesting, that is if you care about employment in the good 'ole USA.
Other than that, maybe it is just because I am getting old (no reflection on Nick) that this cutesy stuff appears to be BORING.
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