Chatroulette: A throwback to 90′s style internet randomness
Since December I’ve heard rumblings about this new one-to-one chat service. However, the chatter was so low I dismissed it as perhaps another social-media-wanna-be-the-new-facebook type of thing. Then a few weeks ago I saw a surge of discussion over Twitter and blogs documenting the beauty and the depravity of what is called Chatroulette. Not familiar with Chatroulette? Ok, here’s the...
Read MoreCan Twitter Kill SMS?
One could only hope. Why? First, allow me to rant for a moment about SMS, the biggest racket in the cellular phone industry, in my opinion. This particularly holds true for those of us already paying a monthly premium for unlimited data access. An SMS transmission is nothing more than data – packets, bits and bytes. Billshrink.com has figured that SMS is actually 412,500 timesmore...
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