ShouldIbeginToUseThis

A question we ask when we discover a new thing that others have started to use ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20101225.20110922

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A list of things popular and being adopted by many:

• Internet | Wiki | Blogging | FaceBook | Twitter | Skype | Glympse | etc ...
• DigitalDevices | Wii | Xbox | Psp | Readers, Ipad, etc ...
• SoftwareDevelopment | Perl | PHP | Python | Ruby | etc ...
• ComputerFootprints | Computer with More than one monitor | More than one computer at one time | LargeFormatMonitors
• Storage Technologies | LargeCapacityUsbDrives | SolidStateDrives
• Removeable Media | Floppies | ZipDisks | Cds | Dvds | FlashDrives | etc ...
• PersonalInformationManagers | OneNote | PaperPort | PersonallyAdoptedPim
• Software | Web apps to replace desktop apps (Google Docs, Aviary)
• Paradigm or Scheme | ObjectOrientedProgramming AgileExperiences

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Not so many people are using these:

• SemanticWeb | SemanticWebEnabledSoftware | CubicWeb | ConnectedText | ...
• GeneralPurposeGraphicsProcessUnits | ComputeUnifiedDeviceArchitecture | MagmaLibrary | OpenCl | ThrustLibrary ...
• Pdf Capture of WikiPages
  • Single Pages for eReaders including the PandigitalNovel
  • Archiving of sets of pages as LinkTargets as in
    • RecentChangePagesByDay
    • RandomPagesByDay
• MongoDatabase

Vapor computing:

• Storage Technologies | 'Cloud' storage service
• Operating Systems | Web OSes
• ComputerFootprints | Thin clients with hosted blade PCs
• HyperSummaries

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Related:

• EmphasizeImportantInformation
• GoogleThis (WikiTag)(The thing you are considering using)