Fundamentally Different

Millions sold. Lines around the block, worldwide. Backorders everywhere, just try to buy one. Steve has done it again. Yes, yes, that's all good. Apple's market cap has now surpassed Microsoft, making them second behind Exxon. David has beaten Goliath it seems. Blah Blah Blah...

...but what's really cool to me about iPad is the way people interact with it. The young, the old, and everyone in between. Brooke figured the interface out in a few seconds. That is power. Yet it's also powerful in the traditional sense: I can just about run my whole business from it while sitting in a cafe drinking a latte. The gen-Y commercials, come to life.

Just look at this pic...is there anyone out there who still thinks this thing is not a fundamental revolution?

Tweet Me A Revolution

When I first heard about Twitter I thought it was the dumbest idea ever, basically like a text page to the whole world. I could see a few uses for it, all of them related to chatty teenagers.

Well, I don't think like that anymore.

Twitter has since proven to be the method of choice for getting information out of censored or dangerous situations, the latest example being the thousands of reports coming from Iran via the #Iranelection hash tag. People with no way to get word of their situations out now only need a cell phone and a Twitter account to broadcast their stories instantly to the rest of humanity, 140 characters at a time.

I have been following these tweets on my phone. They come unedited and direct from real people in Iran, caught up in this situation and thinking they've been handed a rigged election. Despite all of the efforts of the Iranian government to clamp down, these individual streams are leaking out, and they add up to a torrent.

The walls are falling down, brought to you by a technological wonder originally invented as a better way to flirt with girls.

Happy Birthday Ingie!

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