Is it a generational thing like Renee posits?  Nope, I don’t think so.  We just sometimes forget the whacky insular world we live in SF, the Valley, Seattle and sometimes LA.  Does that mean Twitter isn’t important or potentially huge? Nope.  As the next generation comes of age – they like their previous generation’s counterparts in Europe and Asia are much more mobile.  But let’s not rush to distraction, remember not everyone is as infatuated with the latest and greatest as we are.

Now the infrastructure side of the cloud is out there, others are rushing in to add services and utility.  The whole webware movement is a natural extension of the movement – add value to the utility infrastructure.  We are in the early stages with online versions of office apps from Google and Zoho for instance to vertical apps like CRM from Salesforce.com or accounting from Intuit with online versions of Quicken, TurboTax and Quickbooks easily available.

From a consumer perspective, the next movement will be free-ad suppoted computing in the sky.  There’s still work to be done as I have learned from experience monetizing content can be tricky.  Personal content often doesn’t work well with targeting engines like contextual engines (Google AdSense for instance).  And at the same time, users tolerance for ads in an application environment can be tricky.  Fortunately there are startups looking to solve this project.  And the day they do and a computing cloud service offers compelling utility with that ad-model built in is a day when I think this market truly explodes.  Imagine the ability for users to create personalized versions of services.  Point and click your way through a function and feature list to offer a service for you and your friends to enjoy.  OK I am getting a little dreamy but I think you get the point.