In a project by Google Creative Lab, an interviewer asked people on the streets of Time Square in NY – “What is a browser?”. Some of the answers gave me a good laugh. Turns out that less than 8% of those asked the question knew what a browser was.
” the authors estimate that even a moderate-sized botnet of 10,000 machines could successfully obtain identity verifications for younger residents of West Virginia at a rate of 47 a minute.”
The news on the web today is that Twitter may be heading to Hollywood.
Variety reported that a Twitter TV project was announced by Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment yesterday, May 25th. According to the Twitter Blog, they have merely a “lightweight” agreement with the producers, although there are a lot of related ideas in the works.
One of Brillstein’s exec producers involved in the potential project, Jon Liebman stated:
“We’ve found a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.”
Of course they did.
It’s too soon to tell when we can expect an official Twitter television series, but we’ve been warned.
