Battles between standards are nothing new, but ever since the dawning of the world wide web, there seems to be more and more of them as they ever become more fiercely contested.
Take the case of the telephone greeting (eventually standardized by Thomas Edison) as follows.
I am often fascinated by companies that manage to slip un-noticed past the Silicon Valley Hype Machine, while at the same time reaching great levels of success serving a main-stream market niche. These are the types of companies that don’t get covered by the tech punditry.
Some examples of these types of companies include:
PALO ALTO, CA—A new report published this week by researchers at Stanford University suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles.
Researchers were able to identify nearly 30 varieties of glowing rectangles that play some role throughout the course of each day. Among them: handheld rectangles, music-playing rectangles, mobile communication rectangles, personal work rectangles, and bright alarm cubes, which emit a high-pitched reminder that it’s time to rise from one’s bed and move toward the rectangles in one’s kitchen.
Via The Onion
Not sure how this got through my spam filter, but i’m glad it did…this is probably the best spam message ever…so much so, that I thought i’d share it.
