to me the key benefit (along with the possibility of sharing) of using so-called in the cloud applications in addition to being available without the trouble of saving on USB keys, etc.
It means that when you tell people you write, read or listen to blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks and online video - if they give you a funny look, it is now officially them that's a freak, not you.
I'm afraid this remains true, those blogging, podcasting, maintaining a wiki, in my company. We currently use none of afementioned tools, not even a message board...
A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year.
The Finnish-language forum,
eCars - Now!, claims to be first of its kind in the world, and is working in the tradition of the open source projects used in information technology -- like the Linux computer operating system, which was also started by a Finn.