Cloud computing has recently stepped into the public spotlight and become a pop-culture buzzword thanks to its adoption by market leaders like Apple ( AAPL).
Not surprisingly, given its proximity to Silicon Valley and its startup culture, San Francisco ranked as the metropolitan area with the highest volume of job ads for cloud computing skills during the past 90 days.
Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.