Awesome Cloud Apps

Just stumbled upon a couple of really neat apps/mashups/? new types of sites that are emerging.

Paper.li http://paper.li/ allows anyone to create a daily newspaper from a mashup of relevant twitter and RSS feeds

STICKAM http://www.stickam.com allows anyone to broadcast a live show from their web cam or camera

Wow

Blog about Blogs

There are ever increasing awesome useful blogs. This is part of Web 2.0 that is changing society. Some blogs, like this one, are mostly personal, a diary of sorts that I don't mind if others read it, but it is mostly for me.

More and more blogs are becoming authoritative sources of information. Some are part marketing and part message. Here's some:

Michael Geist, CRC, Internet Law http://www.michaelgeist.ca
Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary http://blog.calgarymayor.ca
Cloud Computing Best Practices http://cloudbestpractices.net
Calgary City http://www.calgarycitynews.com

Web 3.0 and SaaS

The cloud model is opening up entire new ways of doing things. Web 1.0 was push/broadcast/repository. Web 1.5 was online retail and commerce. Web 2.0 was social media/crowdsourcing/co-authoring games and gaming. I think Web 3.0 is the cloud. It is an entirely new order-of-magnitude shift to a new model of information and tools.

So, I'm just going to list some interesting cloud-enabled tools for now and keep adding to the list:

General
Wikis - we use Confluence, so teams can collaborate on documents
Shared File Systems - DropBox, box.net, SugarSync, mobile.me, iCloud
Multi-function team collaboration - Huddle

Specific
Edistorm - online stickie notes http://www.edistorm.com/
Doodle - online polling for meetings
Zoomerang - online surveys

Other notable
Sharepoint - Microsoft's multi-function team sharing - not in the cloud, but sort of in a private cloud - I don't like it, but it is a "corporate standard".
iCloud - what will this be?
Citrix - is not SaaS is PaaS or IaaS but seems to be coming at cloud as a good competitor to VMware, keep watching