What’s a Personal Cloud (And Do I Want One)?

The “cloud” is not something new. Apple has iCloud. Google has Google Drive/Google Docs/Google etc…, Microsoft has SkyDrive. Amazon has Kindle and AWS. There are others as well such as Rackspace, Dropbox, and Box.net. And people are starting to use them. Through a variety of synchronizing technologies (maybe you install a piece of software on your computer or, as in the case with Apple, synchronization is built into all of their operating systems), files get uploaded automatically, even accou...