Cloud computing

Got interested in Cloud computing recently and the potential it has in revolutionizing the IT world. This distributed computing model is akin to the commoditization and distribution of electricity a century ago. Google, Amazon, IBM, Yahoo! and Microsoft will fight this battle and the winners would emerge as the utility computing leaders of tomorrow. Jeff Bezos' EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) initiative has been catching up with the SMBs. Yahoo!'s Hadoop support which is the Open source distributed computing leader places it at an advantage. Google is investing $2billion a year in data centers and is the leader in cloud computing. My bet is on Google-IBM and Amazon winning the cloud computing war.

WMG - EMI

With WMG deciding not to bid for EMI, the Big Four label groups remain intact.

Market share of record music companies:
Sony BMG - 25.7%
Vivendi Universal - 21.2%
WMG - 13.8%
EMI - 12.8%

Apple iTunes continues to dominate digital music sales.

Recently, while doing my daily reading on 247wallst.com, I found newly inserted in-text ads. Chances are, while you hate invasive ads which hamper your web-surfing experience, user initiated online ads within the text of relevant web content are going to get you excited. This is a step further from google's text ads which show up as part of search results.



Vibrant Media is the in-text advertising leader and I can't help but wonder that they are a potential acquisition target for Google in the not-so-foreseeable-future, once they gain some traction in the content driven blogosphere.



We are slowly evolving into a world of advertising as portrayed in the futuristic interactive personalized ads in the Hollywood flick "Minority Report". 2054 is not too far away, after all!