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Waking Up to the Clouds

Kenneth Corbin, InternetNews.com

Sep 15, 2008

Most Internet users know what Webmail is. Many are familiar with YouTube, or at least the concept of watching videos online. But how many of them understand that they those applications live in the clouds?

A new study from the Pew Internet and America...

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Most Web users have their heads in the cloud

Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times

Sep 12, 2008

"A study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 69% of people online in the United States have used some form of "cloud computing" -- Web mail, online photo/video storage, or Web-based applications that store their data...

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Report

Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services

Sep 12, 2008John Horrigan

Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the co...

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Most People Who Store Data On Web Want It Private - Study

Fawn Johnson, Dow Jones Newswires, CNNMoney.com

Sep 12, 2008

"The Pew study focused solely on people who store personal data, such as e-mail and photos, on the Web. Web data applications that provide those services are known among technology experts as "the cloud."

Internet analysts say the cloud is in its infa...

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Commentary

Podcasting into the Cloud

Sep 12, 2008Mary Madden

Today we released new data that helps to trace the outline of the cloud in "cloud computing."

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Data Set

May 2008 -- Cloud computing, politics and adult social networking

May 11, 2008

This data set contains questions about cloud computing, online political activities and adult usage of online social networks. It was used in the reports "Adults and Social Network Websites", "Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services" and "Th...

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Seeding The Cloud: What Mobile Access Means for Usage Patterns and Online Content

Mar 5, 2008John Horrigan

There is a demographically diverse group of Americans who already take advantage of mobile acess to data and information. With "cloud computing" on the horizon as the next evolution in mobile access, the make-up of the population of mobile users offe...

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Pew: Web 2.0 Is Web 1.0

Jason Lee Miller, WebProNews.com

Oct 9, 2006

"Pew Internet and American Life Project released a six-page analysis of Web 2.0, attempting to define, exactly, what types of Internet applications the phrase covers. The end result: like porn, we know Web 2.0 when we see it; and Web 2.0 has been her...

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Just An Online Minute... Web 2.0: Searching For A Definition

Wendy Davis, Media Post Publications

Oct 5, 2006

Everyone's heard of "Web 2.0" But many--even the people who use the term most often--are hard-pressed to articulate how "Web 2.0" differs from the Internet before 2004, when the term was coined. This morning, the Pew Internet Project, using data from...

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Presentation

“Privacy Online: How Americans feel… the ways they are responding to new threats … and why they are changing their online behavior”

Nov 3, 2005Lee Rainie

Seven basic things to understand about Americans and their privacy in the internet age.

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