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Twitter: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder why – all in 140 characters – The Boston Globe
Join the Twitterati – web – Technology – theage.com.au
What do you mean you don’t know Twitter?
I was asked to write a three paragraph introduction to Twitter for an Indonesian sister magazine. This is what I ended up writing.
In English.
Accidentally.
I had to translate the entire thing afterwards. Obviously my piece got cut down to pieces because of space constraints, it will end up looking very different to this one.
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Blackberry owners are no longer the only people who walk around looking at their gadgets and twiddling thumbs at them. Regular people with regular mobile phones are joining in the new look of the 21st century all thanks to Twitter. This relatively new kind of blogging has taken the world country by country since 2006.
Developed by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Twitter is a service that lets you post short updates (or tweets) of whatever it is that you’re currently doing or thinking of. You can follow other people on twitter and they can also follow you. If you don’t like certain people following you and read what you tweet, you can block them. Likewise, you can stop following someone if you no longer enjoy what they tweet.
If you think Facebook is like your home on the internet, Twitter is the corner coffee shop where you and your friends hang out. These days though, you don’t just say what you are doing anymore, you can post questions, links to anything you find interesting on the internet and even have conversations with your friends either publicly or privately.
The concept became so popular that late last year Facebook adopted the style for its own status message and even asked a similar question. Twitter asks, “What are you doing?”, while Facebook asks, “What are you doing right now?”
Like instant messenger services, you can send a message to one or more people by adding “@” in front of their Twitter name or “D” to send a direct (private) message that only your friend can see. For example, asking @deon what’s makemac.com? will send that tweet to deon and anyone who follows both you and deon. Sending D deon what’s makemac.com? will only send it to deon.
Twitter started growing quickly after it was introduced and won an award at South by Sothwest, a music/interactive/film festival in Austin, Texas and became even larger in 2008 after Barack Obama’s campaign began using Twitter as one of their online presence.
Other politicians, athletes, musicians and actors have also started using Twitter such as Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Stephen Fry, Britney Spears, Fred Durst, Lily Allen, Shaquille O’Neal, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Apple’s Valentine Ad
I think it’s a bit cute. I also like how they’ve stopped listing the store addresses and phone numbers. Aesthetically it was far too cluttering. I didn’t know that pcMax is now an APR. Congrats to them.
Question is, why is iBox listed twice both under APR and AAR when pcMax, EMAX and eStore also have AAR outlets?
Apple Sales Professional
Apple sent me this a couple of days ago. 🙂
Should I cancel my iPhone reservation?
Apple is known as a company that doesn’t like to leave its primary products untouched or un-updated beyond 12 months. Lately however you may have noticed really long delays between updates for a number of its “core” products such as the Mac mini and Mac Pro.
Noticeably, these are not exactly hot sellers compared to the iPhone and MacBook series and these machines address specific markets that may not necessarily require frequent updates. Apple’s core drivers are now the iPhone 3G and MacBooks with 70% of Apple’s Mac sales coming from the recently updated notebooks.
The iPhone, is a brand new beast. Released in 2007 to a limited customer base in the US, it slowly expanded to parts of Europe later that year. Initially available in 4 and 8 GB capacities, Apple later dropped the 4GB model and added a 16GB version. And dropped the prices too, earning the ire of early adopters.
Within just over a year, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G. It addressed some of the shortcomings of the first generation model by adding a GPS unit and UMTS & HSDPA access for faster data connection. In essence, there is not much difference between the two generations especially when the software in the first model can be upgraded to match the new one. Even the internal model identifiers still refer to version one.
Now Telkomsel is bringing the iPhone 3G to Indonesia roughly 7 months into the life of the product. With the launch date more likely to be early March than late February, I find myself wondering. Is it really worth shelling out for iPhone 3G then when Apple is likely to launch a much revised model 3 to 4 months down the track?
Sure it gets me faster Internet but 3G and HSDPA is so unreliable here I may well find myself back in EDGE or even GPRS territory sooner than I can connect. So much for being faster.
Let’s say it comes out in March. Will they have enough stock for the reported 17 thousand people who preordered? Will it be staggered over several weeks? Will there be activation nightmares like in the US and other countries back in July ‘08?
Like many hot items it is very likely there won’t be enough for everyone who wants one in the first wave.
I’m not basing my concerns and predictions on the recent reports out of Dubai but on Apple’s own habits and the moves they made last year. They have invested in firms and technologies that may bring much improved iPhones in the near future. I’m saying the changes to the next version will be more significant than the last one.
From March, June is not that far away, just one more quarter before the iPhone 3G is a year old. At the moment this first generation iPhone is serving me well enough that I don’t see a compelling reason to upgrade. Yet. I can buy a battery pack in the meantime if the battery is failing.
On the other hand, the wife needs a new phone.
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