What motivates us [ November 26th, 2011 ] Posted in » Web Design
A great video about motivation:
Living in the clouds
I have always been a little reluctant about putting my life in the cloud. Storing all my personal files, projects and intellectual property on someone else’s server. Sending this stuff across the internet for any Tom, Dick and Harry to intercept and decode.
However, as technology progresses and I find myself using data and various services over multiple devices it has become increasingly difficult to manage all my data.
Booting up a pc to do some work and the file I need is on another machine, in a different location and the password is stored on my mobile which I haven’t copied across yet; and many similar scenarios.
Therefore I have decided to give “the cloud” a go. I have already read about loads of different services and even tried a few that have been recommend by friends. Anyway, my life is no longer my own, the amount of data about me floating around already with the likes of facebook, linked in and all the other social networks it would be fairly easy to get a good sense of who I am by the information spread across the social web, so what would a few more gigabytes of my data hurt?
With this recent shift in attitude I have created accounts with a few services to get me started putting my head in the clouds (which is kind of what it feels like).
The main stuff I am using now include Dropbox, Evernote and Diigo.
I will let you know how I get on (If I get time, and a jumbo jet doesn’t hit me while I have my head in the clouds)