It’s the buzzword that’s been going around since… well… a long time now.  “Cloud Computing” has had some sort of a revival with the Apple iPhone.  I for one has been unknowingly doing this thing for a long time now.  I’ve been doing some articles and submitting them using Google Docs, I’ve been storing pictures and videos through Flickr, Multiply, Picasa and other social networking sites. My bookmarks are stored at Google Bookmarks and now I’m dabbling with Microsoft’s Office Live service.

These things had been a virtual impossibility a few years ago because the bandwidth required to do cloud computing is a bit hard to come by.  But now, I realized that at least half of what I do on the computer, I do in the “cloud”.

Cloud computing is a godsend for netbook users (like me).  By providing software as a service (SAAS), cloud computing has somehow made a netbook with limited storage to still become useful.  My netbook, an Asus Eee PC 701 with a 4GB of storage is quite usable despite that “handicap” because I can still do word processing using Google Docs, I can still store images online, even store large files through online backup services.