But neither do they talk about cars, gambling, sandwiches, television, furniture, the Yankees, fashion, tanning, money, clouds, rainbows, plastic surgery, anxiety medication, asthma medication, acid-reflux medication, their jobs, their memories or their friends.
Its most powerful ally is Google, whose Google Earth Outreach unit has donated money, cloud computing and storage to SkyTruth.
"It's not just that there is a loophole allowing a money cloud to descend on a marginal constituency long before an election," said Labour MP Martin Linton, whose Battersea constituency – held with a tiny 163-vote majority in 2005 – is listed as an "early gain" on the Tory blueprint.
"The Republicans are spending a lot of money to cloud the issues, but they're selling a very sour bill of goods".
"The real issue is whether the money can cloud someone's judgment," said Josephine Johnston, an associate for law and bioethics at the Hastings Center, a research group in Garrison, N.Y., that specializes in medical ethics.
As for making money, RealPlayer Cloud will follow a freemium model, with up to two gigabytes of storage for free.
And the companies paying real money for cloud computing – signing eight- and nine-figure annual contracts – they're the ones looking for alternatives.
Now that there's an opportunity to make money using cloud technologies, developer tools have become a viable business once again.
During my own startup adventures, I came to the conclusion that, succeed or fail, the only people guaranteed to make money are cloud providers and lawyers.
He says in the interview that hardware is becoming unimportant and that people will start to spend that money on cloud services instead.
But beyond just money-making, cloud storage can represent a very effective lock-in mechanism — given it can require significant effort for users to move their stuff to another storage repository if they do want to switch OSes.
