I came across this post and immediately felt a very familiar sense. It’s something I had been wondering about for a while.
I started noticing on events and various ad-hoc meets that a lot of the crowd I know is also on twitter, has a (couple of) weblog(s), is all hyped up about latest developments in the e-world, … and all in all are probably a bunch of early adopters.
If I compare that to the business reality I live in, I often find myself far away from those people on the technological front (I don’t work in a internet related business, for those who might wonder). In general, my colleagues represent the ‘average user’. What strikes me most about them (besides the fact they rely on internet exploder) is that they still consider the internet as this ‘out there’ thing that by definition has to be accessed through a browser, either on their desktop or on their mobile. Which to me indicates 2 points that need to change before the masses will be ready for things like twitter.
1. The internet is not a set of web pages. It’s a medium to transport digital content of any kind, that can be stored somewhere in that cloud.
2. Out of realizing point 1 follows that you don’t need (just) a browser to access that content. Which opens a lot of opportunities to work with this concept in innovative ways.
Given that people imho will eventually adopt these 2 things, there are interesting times ahead of us…
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