Today, a follow-up of yesterday’s first excerpt on enclosures through the cloud. Centralized cloud environment. To do so, the majority of cloud computing platforms rely on centralized architectures combined with a hierarchical system of governance. * Article: The Commodification of Information Commons. MORE >>

The Diaspora team was inspired by a talk of Eben Moglen on Freedom in the Cloud ( highlights posted here ) at a recent event. Moglen describes the problem with facebook and other proprietary social networking sites: “Our calendar is on the web. Social networking may be about to change. Enter Diaspora. But it’s a service. MORE >>

Ifttt is a brilliant tool for those of us of Generation C , plugged-in to several social networks, services and cloud storage boxes at once. iffft can also store a record of those profile photos for you, by using storage destinations like Evernote and Dropbox or notating the change on your Google Calendar. Viola! More about GCal below!) MORE >>

Cloud Computing may be the vehicle for extracting permanent financial rents, in a form of license-based feudalism. Cory also thinks it is unwise to rely on a corporate cloud in times of financial turbulence. Cloud services can reverse that, at least in part. The next generation kicked their asses by offering email flat-rate. MORE >>

By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience that can increase business efficiency and reduce administrative overhead. It is another step in Google’s move to become a player in the productivity software space, especially the cloud version. MORE >>