"They also point out that the initial rush of customers would be dominated by early adopters or Apple enthusiasts, who might be more forgiving of the fact that the company may not have worked out all of the kinks -- or found a so-called killer app."
@CmdrTaco@philsplace@slashdot I was only a couple of years deep into my career, working at a big corporation that had initially brought me on to run their website. I remember someone proposing, “What’s your #Slashdot ID?" as an interview screening question.
Hmm. Not sure. When I tried to explain my podcast to my boomer father, I used the analogy, “internet radio show”. So maybe something like netrad or similar portmanteau?
@Narshada@mayor@brns@philsplace@appleinsider@CmdrTaco#Netscape made the “Netcaster” full-screen “webtop” to augment or replace the traditional personal computer desktop metaphor with content pushed over the web instead of users selecting links. In truth, it was a bandwidth-sapping ad delivery platform.
#Microsoft viewed it as an existential threat to #Windows and worked to kill Netscape completely.
@Narshada@mayor@mjgardner@brns@philsplace@appleinsider we just called it ‘radio’ when we started doing ‘ Geeks in Space’ episodes in ‘99. But we all had done some time DJing the college station. Now they still call it podcasting when it’s on YouTube. Branding!
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