The Real Deal Podcast

While reading the webware.com news feed I saw mention of a podcast about cloud computing produced by The Real Deal for the CNet.com network.

Cloud computing seems to be the latest buzzword/technology, I heard mention of it in the BBC Digital Planet podcast only yesterday. It is fairly amusing to hear some people referring to the similarity between this 'virtual/shared technology' and the old time-sharing mainframe systems of the 1970s. Further proof that things come in cycles, be it that they are slightly metamorphosed on each iteration.

But I digress, this podcast is a fresh of breath air and I've listened to a couple of other episodes and what strikes me is the simple, layman like explanations and enlightening discussions of all these new buzzwords and technologies. The presenters are Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman, Rafe is also the editor of webware.com which is a pretty good synopsis of all that is new in the Web2.0 world.