Method and apparatus for transferring digital content from a computer to a mobile handset

1. A system for sharing content of a user between a computing cloud having one or more computers and one or more storage units and a device, comprising:

the computing cloud having a content store that stores a plurality of pieces of digital content of the user;

a device having a device content store that stores one or more pieces of digital content, the device having a display that displays the one or more pieces of digital content stored on the device and the plurality of pieces of digital content stored on the computing cloud;

the device having an application that requests, when the user wants to listen to a piece of digital content stored in the computing cloud, the piece of digital content from the computing cloud and that stores the piece of digital content on the device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing cloud synchronizes the plurality of pieces of digital content on the computing cloud with the pieces of the digital content stored on the device.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of devices, wherein each device has an application that requests, when the user wants to listen to a piece of digital content stored in the computing cloud, the piece of digital content from the computing cloud and that stores the piece of digital content on the device, and wherein the computing cloud synchronizes the plurality of pieces of digital content on the computing cloud with each of the plurality of devices.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein each device of the plurality of devices are selected from a group consisting of a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a PDA, a wireless email device, an MP3 player, smart phones, mobile phones, personal computer, laptop, set-top box, television, in car digital content system and game consoles.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the application of each device of the plurality of devices further comprises a transfer module that allows pieces of digital content to be directly transferred between the plurality of devices.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising a wireless network that wirelessly connects the device with the computing cloud so that the piece of digital content from the computer are accessible to the device over the wireless network.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the wireless network further comprises a cellular telephone network, a WiFi network or a wireless data network.

8. The system of claim 1 further comprising a link that connects the device with the computer so that the piece of content from the computer is downloaded over the link.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the link further comprises a cable, a docking station, a memory card that can be inserted into the device or a Bluetooth network.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein each piece of digital content further comprises a piece of metadata associated with each piece of digital content, and wherein the computing cloud further comprises a recommender unit that recommends one of a piece of digital content and a playlist of digital content based on the metadata associated with the plurality of pieces of digital content of the user.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein each piece of digital content further comprises a piece of metadata associated with each piece of digital content, and wherein the computing cloud further comprises a recommender unit that recommends one of a piece of digital content and a playlist of digital content based on the metadata associated with the plurality of pieces of digital content of the user and the metadata associated with all pieces of digital content stored in the computing cloud.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein each piece of digital content further comprises a piece of metadata associated with each piece of digital content, and wherein the computing cloud further comprises a community unit that introduces a first user to a second user based on the plurality of pieces of digital content of the first and second users.

13. A device for downloading and interacting with pieces of digital content wherein the pieces of digital content are stored in a computing cloud having one or more computers and one or more storage units wherein the computing cloud has a content store that stores a plurality of pieces of digital content of the user, the device comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a device content store, stored in the memory, that stores one or more pieces of digital content;

a display that displays the one or more pieces of digital content stored on the device and the plurality of pieces of digital content stored in the computing cloud;

an application, stored in the memory and executed by the processor, that requests, when the user wants to listen to a piece of digital content stored in the computing cloud, the piece of digital content from the computing cloud and that stores the piece of digital content on the device.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the pieces of the digital content stored on the device are synchronized with the plurality of pieces of digital content on the computing cloud.

15. The apparatus of 13 , wherein the device is selected from a group consisting of a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a PDA, a wireless email device, an MP3 player, smart phones, mobile phones, personal computer, laptop, set-top box, television, in car digital content system and game consoles.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the application further comprises a transfer module that allows pieces of digital content to be directly transferred to a second device.

17. A method for sharing content of a user between a computing cloud having one or more computers and one or more storage units wherein the computing cloud having a content store that stores a plurality of pieces of digital content of the user and a device that stores one or more pieces of digital content and is capable of displaying the one or more pieces of digital content stored on the device and the plurality of pieces of digital content stored on the computing cloud, the method comprising:

requesting, by an application of the device, when the user wants to listen to a piece of digital content stored in the computing cloud, the piece of digital content from the computing cloud;

storing stores the piece of digital content from the computing cloud on the device; and

playing the piece of digital content on the device.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising synchronizing the plurality of pieces of digital content on the computing cloud with the pieces of the digital content stored on the device.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising synchronizing the plurality of pieces of digital content on the computing cloud with each of a plurality of devices.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising directly transferring, between the devices, a piece of digital content.

21. The method of claim 17 further comprising wirelessly connecting the device with the computing cloud so that the piece of digital content from the computer are accessible to the device over the wireless network.

22. The method of claim 17 further comprising recommending one of a piece of digital content and a playlist of digital content to the user of the device based on a set of metadata associated with the plurality of pieces of digital content of the user.

23. The method of claim 17 further comprising recommending one of a piece of digital content and a playlist of digital content to the user of the device based on a set of metadata associated with the plurality of pieces of digital content of the user and the metadata associated with all pieces of digital content stored in the computing cloud.

24. The method of claim 17 further comprising introducing a user of a first device to a user of a second device based on the plurality of pieces of digital content of the first and second users.