This term means quite a few different things to quite a few different people.  When I talk about cloud computing here on hawver.net, I am referring to a general and broad description of computing that takes place on the Internet, where previously would have always taken place locally.  On a very basic level, if you are interacting with a website and possibly storing information on the web that can and will be accessible at a later date, then you are "computing on the cloud".  On a more advanced level, you can begin discussions about full application hosting, where you would play an entire video game, and none of your local hardware would be taken advantage of to execute the gameplay.  This is obviously where the future of cloud computing is headed, but more on that later.  For now, let's focus on very basic concepts.

Here is the list of cloud computing applications that I use and rely on daily:

• Google Apps for Domains
  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Docs
  • Google Tasks
• Dropbox
• OpenGoo
• Pidgin
• FileZilla
• Chrome