Pretty complex question my friend.
I use it for almost everything nowadays. And, chances are you are using it as well - but you have not termed it "cloud" yet. Below are 10 different ways I use cloud in my daily life..
1. My daily emails are through gmail / yahoo. The service is completely taken care by others, I don't have much control over servers, and I don't like to have any control other than securely using my email
2. I host my websites on the cloud. I use shared hosting services, and
Amazon Web Services
3. I sometimes do hobby, simple programming on
Code Anywhere. But it has a long way to go before becoming my "go to" choice for programming.
4. I use office applications on
Google Docs. It makes it easier to share my work, and create documents as a team effort
5. I store all my backups (documents, photos, video clips) on
Dropbox.com,
Box.com, and
Skydrive (a.k.a onedrive)
6. I use
Zoho applications to store my customer records. It makes it easier to maintain records, and then some
7. I use asana.com, and trello.com for my project management needs
8. I do my business financial planning on cloud (mint.com)
9. I play online games - you can say they "run" on the cloud
10. Lastly, I use a number of applications out there without even thinking twice about whether it is in Cloud!
-
bubbl.us for creating mind maps
-
pixlr.com for simple edits of photos
- collate all my reading materials online through
Feedly.com reader
- store passwords on cloud -
lastpass.com
There are a host of others that I do not remember at the moment. But, you get the gist.