Cloud computing , where we are heading

It has been hectic week , we have so much buzz around the cloud or is it that I have been extra time on learning the cloud I don't know. I see every where something that cloud can do better, Google has just made available CR-48 which I am pretty exited about , and I would like One myself this is so much better than your usual windows laptop , for the fact that all that it has is browser to take to service you use , SaS( software as service ) is taken to next level , and in the age of the social networking this is pretty much what you expect the flow to go .

I have been trying out the Chrome plugins like rock melt which is offering me the neater way to track my social circle and also cortex which is neater way to share both these ectension solving the consuming and producing the content for the social circle , now chrome laptop gives the launch pad for these kind of service
these are innovation platform but then it brings me to all important fact how they fare against the open software .

Fact that these components including the facebook , has been built around the open source software but they themselves are closed in nature , the guys handling these services control what you can do and can't do no better than what MS guys were offering

though it is scary proposition to think that all your data is residing in the cloud but sooner or later that is the way it is going to be , fact is that are you on that wagon or not .