What is Cloud Computing and Web2.0?

There are many ways one could go about trying to define Cloud Computing and Web 2.0.  The easiest way I can define it is in one word which most people are all familiar with, Facebook.  Facebook is one of the most common tools of Cloud Computing.  You didn’t go to the store, purchase Facebook on a disc, get in your car, drive home, and then insert the disc into your computer.  To get Facebook you simply opened a web browser (ie Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, etc.).  Most of the time, you are using Cloud Computing and Web2.0 whenever you have to “log in” to something or whenever you are “streaming” or “uploading/downloading” something.  G-mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, and Youtube are probably some of the most known Cloud Computing and Web2.0 applications.  In Cloud Computing, you do not have to go to the store to purchase the update of any of these applications.  Cloud Computing and Web2.0 applications make it so we can access any information we put “into the cloud” from any other computer or web device from around the world.  I can upload pictures onto Facebook or Flickr and if I lose those pictures on my computer, all I have to do is go onto Facebook or Flickr to retrieve those pictures.  Cloud Computing and Web2.0 is still very young, we are constantly seeing the emergence of new Cloud Computing and Web2.0 applications.