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Exploding heads and body parts flying in Rambo look great in 1080p. ;-)
I was just discussing this with my friend Zakk and it seems to come up at least once a week for both of us. We both struggle to explain Twitter in a way that people get. Especially to people who don’t have smart phones or don’t get much further into social networking than checking Myspace or Facebook when they’re bored.
We can throw terms like microblogging around, but that usually just leads to blank stares. Because, lets face it, the word blog itself is fairly distant to a lot of people. Something they hear now and then on the news or read about in a magazine.
Perhaps the best, worst, and laziest explanation we’ve both used is “it’s like a slow motion chat room” but that’s not right at all.
This video is a good explanation, but you can’t always bust out a video on people.
How do you explain Twitter to people? I’d love some suggestions.
With the advent of the Internet, billions of images are now freely available online and constitute a dense sampling of the visual world. Using a variety of non-parametric methods, we explore this world with the aid of a large dataset of 79,302,017 images collected from the Internet.
On 1/8/08, 10 years after he placed a call to Microsoft tech support, they called Brian back to see if his problem had been resolved. Are they just that backed up? Latent Y2K error? Phishing attempt? The truth is much more banal, and potentially, more frightening. See if you can figure out the solution before continuing on to the answer…
