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'This ECAR research bulletin is the first in a series of bulletins devoted to cloud computing in higher education. It summarizes insights and a framework for thinking about cloud computing, and it touches on potential emergent roles for public and private clouds. The findings draw from spring 2009 interviews with industry and university information technology (IT) leaders, a review of current literature, and a synthesis of recent research from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR).'

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'Students are increasingly arriving at college already managing multiple e-mail addresses with “cloud”-based e-mail services -- such as Gmail and Hotmail -- which are hosted remotely by third-party companies. These students are often reluctant to use the e-mail client provided to them by their institution.'

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'A lot of people — often for quite understandable reasons — feel very uncomfortable about the ramifications of moving computing to the cloud, and therefore they try and confine it within familiar boundaries where they feel more comfortable. They persuade themselves that, so long as they include some of the recognized characteristics of cloud computing, such as a virtualized infrastructure and some notion of metered usage, then they’ve still captured its essence, without having to stray beyond the confines of their existing enterprise infrastructure.'

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'I have a small amount of experience in a special library, and the biggest thing I learnt there was the value a librarian can offer by creating customised information 'feeds' for each staff member. That feed could be made up of table-of-content alerts, journal article alerts, new and relevant websites etc all delivered directly to the user. Public libraries have a much wider and more diverse customer base, but I can't help but wonder if the special-library approach is one way to help our users.'

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'There have already been several attempts at copying the old-fashioned "files and folders" desktop interface to the Web, but they have not caught on. Imitations desktops to-date have simply been clunky and slow imitations of the real-thing at best. Others have been overly slick. But one thing they all have in common: None of them have nailed it. People don't want to manage all their information on the Web in the same interface they use to manage data and apps on their local PC. The Web is an entirely different medium than the desktop and it requires a new kind of interface. The desktop of the future - what some have called "the Webtop" - still has yet to be invented.'

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'Users really like the convenience of the cloud — far too much for them to give it up — but the trouble is, they also like the convenience of authentication using a simple username-password pair. They haven’t yet figured out that’s far too little to separate your confidential data from a nefarious interloper, especially when the Web means that authentication will work from anywhere, which dramatically increases the threat level.'

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"A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring grid, distributed and cloud computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet."\n\n

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"CLOUD COMPUTING IS THE CLOSEST WE'VE COME yet to what futurists promised the internet could be. If you use Google Apps, YouTube, Amazon, Salesforce, Flickr, Facebook, Bittorrent, Skype, or any of a myriad of applications that let you access and share inf

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"Understand that the cloud may also be a valuable information resource in its own right. how many times have we answered a reference question via Facebook, wikipedia, blog posts, a Flickr picture, etc. These are all viable means to get answers. Tap into

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Slideshow about web 2.0 and the cloud

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"Let Jason Griffey take you on a guided tour into the future of mobile computing, where access is ubiquitous and librarians ply their trade in the information cloud"

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"In this virtual roundtable, our panel of experts weighs in on the evolution of worldware: from the desktop software of two decades ago, to today's Web 2.0 and social 'cloud' technologies, and on to the discipline-specific tools of the future."

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Twitchboard and the possible future of social networks

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EDUCAUSE e-book on the impact of the networked information economy on academia.

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