Thing 45 Cloud Computing

I have used Google docs quite a bit for my own documents and last year did a cooperative project with two others using Google docs. We put together a PowerPoint presentation online and then all met in Long Beach to show it. The main complaint we had was that it did not have the same formatting as our original PowerPoint and some of the media functions did not work at all. There are other options such as slideshow.com. One of the conferences I attended had many of the presentations available there. We all know the importance of backups and these online backups are even better, because you can get to them any time or place that you can get an Internet connection. In the end we will probably all leave a trail of data behind us on all the clouds we used for a while and then abandoned for the next thing.