Electricity was around for a while before people really knew what to do with it, or even thought they'd use it. For rich people maybe...but what would they do with it, exactly? or factories...Until the light bulb was invented...then people got it.
That's one example. For home electricity, the light bulb was the killer app.
For the web, music is a killer app: an ideal use of a new technology that makes it into a must-have: Hear music, watch it, read about it, share it. The distance between information modes (sound--vision--word) vanishes. You're also free from location (the distance between people vanishes) and free from the physical object.
Not just that--but huge helpings of user-contributed content are yours for the seeking, eventually outnumbering everything else...
Is Flickr a killer app? Let's go see.
1 comment:
Hi Anna! Great blog, of course I am biased toward the music parts :)
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