{"id":76,"date":"2005-06-03T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/?p=76"},"modified":"2005-06-03T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-04T07:01:37","slug":"killer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/2005\/06\/03\/killer-app\/","title":{"rendered":"killer app"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have a friend who is a complete luddite, and they ask you why they should use the internet, you should tell them ‘Video chat’. The fact that I can chat and see my friends all the way around the world is prettty freaking amazing.<\/p>\n

I spent an hour or so last week doing a video chat with my friend in Japan–got to play peek-a-boo with his kid, talk to his mom and wife, and just hang out and catch up. It’s not as good as being there, but it’s pretty close.<\/p>\n

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it’s pretty awesome. just like voice is the killer app for cell phones, i think voice\/video communication on PCs is the killer app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have a friend who is a complete luddite, and they ask you why they should use the internet, you should tell them ‘Video chat’. The fact that I can chat and see my friends all the way around the world is prettty freaking amazing. I spent an hour or so last week doing … Continue reading “killer app”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"0","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}