I took a recent trip "into the cloud" of the Internet for CNN.com. The goal was to find some or all of the photos, blog posts, status updates and documents I save to the Internet instead of on my laptop or work computer.

Part of the way through my adventure, after visiting an IBM cloud computing center (shown above), I learned the IT industry has a name for people like me who want to find the real locations of their digital data.
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It’s difficult to write a profile of someone who you’ve never met in person - much less someone who lives on the other side of the world, on a continent you've never visited. With the help of technology, though, it’s getting easier.

In today's CNN.com profile of Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the brothers behind a new Web product called Google Wave, I used some tech tools to get a sense of the brothers’ personalities, their relationship and their creative process without traveling to their office in Sydney, Australia, for a face-to-face interview.
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