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What is a Clowd?

fdwiredfdwired Registered User new member
edited November 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
i've got a paper in my computer sci course asking "what is a clowd" and I have no idea where to begin ... there isn't much literature out there except for seth godin's blog ...which is a good starting point. anybody have any ideas or quasi-knowledge on it?

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    What a horribly retarded word. It should be promptly shot in the mouth.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    So what I guess I'm saying is that you should answer "A clowd is a horrible travesty of a word by some random internet person that decided to make a portmanteau of crowd and cloud, making himself look like a silly twat and totally being laughed at and utterly deserving of immense amounts of ridicule."

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  • fdwiredfdwired Registered User new member
    edited November 2008
    lol. i think the prof would give me an A+ for that, can i quote u?

    just found this ... some SUN engineers use "clowd" internally, anybody work at SUN by any chance :S ... still a weak source

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Clowd is a stupid word and I hate this thread for introducing me to it.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    "A new-ish buzzword whose precise meaning is not yet solidly defined."

    It's amazing how often you can use that definition.

    For a field like computer science, where ambiguity is, essentially, the Devil, you'd think they'd know better.

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    fdwired wrote: »
    What is a clowd?
    A miserable little pile of secrets.
    Other than that, I've got nothing.

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Meet The Clowd

    clowd.gif

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    is this a reference to cloud computing

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2008
    musanman wrote: »
    is this a reference to cloud computing

    A portmanteau of cloud and crowd. Like people collaborating on the interwebs.

    So it's like cloud computing, but retarded.

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    That is TERRIBLE. Isn't social networking a good enough descriptor?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    cloweb two point oh

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »
    cloweb two point oh

    You'd better be careful tossing things around like that. If it catches on, you'll be responsible.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    ZackSchilling wrote: »
    Meet The Clowd

    clowd.gif

    Oh my fucking god. You win the internet. Game over.

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