I've figured out what actually supports the internet: the cloud is actually a large piece of hype that escaped sometime in 2001 and now is running its own operating system and sending out press releases.

Seriously, that article was a little too breathless for me. I certainly hope that it is really that cool because that would be awesome. But I've read a lot of hyped articles over the last few years.

Is it too much to ask for a reviewer of a new product to be on a bit of a critical hat? After all, this is a large company coming up with something new that they are going to own. We've got Google Gears, HTML 5, Google Maps, Google Mashups, etc. Would you like Google fries with your Google shake?

It looks great. I hope it is great. I worry about things like identity management and levels of friends with such tools -- not sure if they've solved that. I'm also not sure how other parties besides Google are supposed to own the data, which might be important for some folks.

It's cool, no doubt. But it's not the Apollo moon landing. It's more like Outlook on steroids.