practicehacker

I couldn’t help noticing the paragraph in the r/w/w piece I blogged about earlier today that spoke directly to me (actually, about me )

… early adopters are the first to sign up and create profiles on every service that launches … sometimes they’re not so great after all, and they end up fading away into nothingness … [but] these failures don’t seem to dampen our enthusiasm … if they’re the next big thing (or so everyone says), we’re supposed to jump on board and use them [empasis added]

Nearly dead-on. The author just forgot to mention that early-adopters are also masochistic self-loathing obsessive compulsives who would toss their grandmother under a bus for the chance to try every insipid new social-networking service 24 hours before their peers rather than spend a moment engaged in actual social interaction.

But other than that, good job. Really well done.

Ed. Note: I sense a great disturbance in the force … a million lawyers asking ‘what the hell does that mean?’
Google has shown us the future, and it is in moblogging, I mean microblogging, I mean smart phones … whatever. The search giant bought teeny weeny Twitter competitor Jaiku this week. What is Twitter? What is Jaiku? What the hell am I talking about? First take a look at this post, then read the breaking news on Twittown. Then take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning, because you’ve officially been outrun by technology used primarily by 12 year olds. Yeah … it’s like that.