When I first arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco earlier this week for the big to-do put on by Google and Salesforce, I came upon CEO Eric Schmidt taping a segment for his own internal communications people.What he was saying provided a pretty clear view of the way Google thinks about cloud computing --  and the company's intellectual self-confidence -- so I piggybacked on part of the interview just in case he wasn't granting any to the press -- or to little-known online video news startups like Vator.tv. He wasn't, at least not according to his press folks. But I had known Schmidt since interviewing him once during a conference at a Las Vegas hotel room.At that ... [ Read more ]