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Web 2.0 — Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) and Shane Robison (HP) talk about Cloud Computing as the Future Web

One thing was missing (IMHO) from this nearly hour-long discussion — Charlene Li’s and Josh Bernoff’s notion of the “Groundswell”: Both Padmasree and Shane very strongly took the perspective of the organization apart from it’s stakeholders. This is a weak point — and one that needs to be addressed with a view to integrating the two.

Where does the Cloud meet the Groundswell?

The place where these 2 different perspectives meet is simple & straightforward: Language (an in particular [2] keyword domain names).

One of my primary focus points in graduate school was the relationship between written and spoken language. Of course both are very closely linked, but these two “spheres” of language use are, perhaps a good construct for thinking about integrating the Groundswell (cf. spoken language) and clouds (cf. written language). Now of course these are crucial points related to knowledge management, the semantic web, cognitive structures and related issues that are important in the context of information storage and retrieval (aka “search”).