The way I understand it there are two kinds of “personal cloud” applications, which look the same but are actually different.

In both I run my applications and personal data on computers that sit somewhere else – I don’t know where on the Internet exactly so I draw that as a cloud. The logical line runs from my computer up into the Cloud.

But, it seems to me, that logical line could actually go to two places. In one it goes to a particular company’s computers running their particular software. In another it goes to a Cloud-computing company that runs all kinds of applications, each one for a separate company. But both lines end in my personal cloud. That is, I can’t tell the difference from my end which is which.

Which is fine. It means that the applications that I write about can be based on a broader definition of “personal cloud applications,” which can include both types. These are then “cldwrld” applications.

Synchronizing even more closely with the tighter definition of this blog I wrote about in the last post I’ve changed the tag-line again to: “a personal quest to understand the personal cloud.”