Cloud Computing might be a big waste of time. It sure has
a lot of hype to it. Google does this, google does that.
Whatever. What do the numbers say? Here is cloud by the
numbers.

  1. Cloud One Flying CLub – mkay http://cloudone.org/
  2. A dead-end line drawing of a cloud – boring http://cloud2.com/
  3. The theatrical portfolio of Senda ED Shallow – whatever http://cloudthree.net
  4. CloudFour.com – Expert Web and Mobile design, development and strategy – blah blah blah http://cloudfour.com/
  5. Five computer clouds are all we need – http://gigaom.com/2007/11/22/five-computer-clouds-are-all-we-need/
  6. Unit 4 Cloud6, why? http://ocw.usu.edu/Forest__Range__and_Wildlife_Sciences/Wildland_Fire_Management_and_Planning/cloud6.jpg/view
  7. Dedicated to 100 years of underachievement by the Hull City Football Club – ’nuff saidhttp://www.oncloudseven.com/
  8. Cloudeight – Home of the Web’s Best and Most Popular Email Stationery – right, gotta have it http://www.cloudeight.net/
  9. Cloud Nine Super Shuttle – Cumulonimbus – http://cloudnineshuttle.com/
  10. Cloud Ten Pictures – Home of the Left Behind series – blech http://cloudtenpictures.com/
  11. Cloud Eleven, a band in L.A. – http://cloudeleven.com/
  12. Cloud Twelve mood music – that’s so last century http://www.cloudtwelve.com/
  13. More film stuff – http://cloudthirteenproductions.com/
  14. A web comic whose author didn’t even have time to color it in – http://cloudfourteen.net/
  15. A USPS series of 15 types of clouds – http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloudspotter-and-stamp-collectors-unite/
  16. A personal 16mm film collection. You must be kidding. – http://cloud16.com/
  17. Last years secret Jet Blue promo code – worhtless http://www.debonairmag.com/cloud_seventeen_-_jet_blue_promo_code.htm
  18. A domain parked for over two years with nothing to show for it – http://cloud18.com/
  19. Some type of film/design thing whose navigation flash cruft is broken – http://cloud19.com/
  20. A scalable database appliance early stage startup (a.k.a. ppt-ware) – http://cloud20.com/
  21. DVD Authoring software – another coaster maker http://cloud21.com/

What a wasteland. The numbers do not lie, my friend.

And then there’s hadoop. But they don’t even have their
curly braces in the right spots so they are destined to fail I guess.