"Consumer Computing Cloud"

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So I have been talking about the future marketplace for Google and Microsoft(+Yahoo?) and what they would really be competing on (which is NOT search). I have taken to calling it "Consumer Computing Services". But Google has been referring to it as "Cloud computing"; see the Forbes' article called "Google's Cloud".

Forbes' explanation: "Cloud computing is a simple concept: Software and services are delivered over the Web and through a browser. No servers or client software to install. Available anytime, anywhere, from any device connecting to the Internet. Businesses call it software-as-a-service, or SaaS, but for most people, it's just the Web."

That's a pretty good concise explanation.

"Search engines are not the end but the beginning, like Edison's first light bulb illuminating a single room. Where information initially flowed in one direction, it now moves freely across both time and space. The increasing interactivity of life in the cloud creates a worldwide conversation, a multi-dimensional collaboration that seems endlessly possible."

Now we are getting a bit more ethereal (pun intended). Time and Space. Interactivity of life. Multi-dimensional collaboration. Is this a PH.D thesis?

Anyhow, in the CNBC interview with Eric Schmidt, which I covered earlier this week, he also mentions the "cloud".

So I give in. I am going to rename my coinage of "Consumer Computing Services" to "Consumer Computing Cloud". Which can also be known as "CCC", "C-Cubed" or "Triple C"; it definitely rings better. The term "consumer computing cloud" (in quotes) is not yet found on Google as of today (9 May 2008); hence I can lay claim to have coined this term. See result below:

In the days that follow, this blog entry should be listed on there as our friend spiderbots will come and read this page. I am going check using this link. Let's see if this term starts to catch on. Hahahahha.

Peace. Out.