This is brain spa!

Thus said Joel Yuvienco, team member and organizer of the first TED event, albeit independently organized, to be held in the country. Judging from the attentiveness showered by the crowd, it sure feels like a refreshing break from the regular programming brought about by both traditional forms of media and traditional learning formats as well.

I'm pretty sure that there will be more things to be said and written about this seminal event but for all intents and purposes, let me share my ode to it.

Public clouds could take decades to mature, so says Gartner.

As we speak, the term 'cloud computing' is still adding (or dropping) definitions.  Just maybe, like the fluffy clouds that take whatever shape our imagination conjures when we look up the sky, we could do better using images.

A Cloud Computing Venn Diagram

Not everything will move into the cloud, but the cloud will move into everything. - Nick Carr

In 2002, BBC ran an article about the fact that internet sites, back then at 32 million, was about to drop more than grow.

"For only the second time ever, an authoritative monthly survey of the number of sites on the net has found fewer sites online than in the previous month.  The fall has been put down to a drop in the number of registered domains.  But between November and December 2001, the number of sites on the web fell by 182,142.

[I know most of you would like to get the inside scoop on the new site and the Morph Cloudserver but allow me to spoil this a bit more and get this one off first.  Thanks.]

In life, there are many things we take for granted especially if you're a bit well off than the others.  Increased spending power generally makes cost irrelevant for the can affords.  Little by little, such behavior leads to erosion of fundamental rights to commercial power brokers, often in negligible amounts but more costly in the long-term.  One of the good things that the economic downturn has made us realize is to re-examine costs and expenditures, research on alternatives and re-focus on the principles of 'value for money'.

Busy week for us at the Y4IT.

If you think that the organizers of SXSW would be crazy to mess with it's proven successful program, think again.  In fact, not only are they cool with the idea of doing something different, they event want us, including you, to help program next year's full event for music + film and interactive conferences!

There are 2 things you can expect when you organize something like a forum. One is you can expect that things will be a lot different from the way you planned and the second is that when people share experiences, there's bound to be insights.