The recent debate on whether Cloud Computing is a revolution or just an annoying ideology reveals how obsessed we can become with our own challenges. The owner of a large data center might find that the "cloud" is an expensive alternative with less control and a small enterprise might want to carefully think about its hosting and managed platform options. But the real hero of the Cloud Computing Era will be the talented teenager who will develop the next YouTube or Twitter in a few hours on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

An interesting application for CL2M is the data center. As cloud computing and managed applications are taking off in these thrifty times, the size of data centers is growing and additional possibilities for saving are being looked for. Here is an interesting video on a data center RFID project. 

I like to observe the ongoing - and upcoming - convergence of technologies and how the most remote ideas, applications and gadgets can find each other in this weirdly exciting world of "mashups".