Stein and social status

Joel Stein's essay in Time looks at online social networking. Nothing new, and there was a similar essay in Slate also a few weeks back that targets the same ground. But this time, Stein sort of stratifies the online networking sites. Your online networking tool says a lot about you. Stein claims that Friendster is mostly Asian, hi5 is Eurotrashy and Twitter is for geeks.

Twitter is for geeks? Since when? But then again, I follow a tech update site via Twitter, which then sends me updates at 2 freaking AM. Oh yeah, must be a geeky thing then.

Yun lang naman.

Is that a computer in your pocket

Or are you just happy to see me?

Intel and Asus teamed up for Eee PC, a 7-inch ultraportable that will retail for $199. It's got connectivity, a webcam, 512MB of RAM and a 4, 8 or 16GB flash drive for speedy, reliable storage.

And did I mention that it costs less than $200? It's the size of a paperback and costs the same as a really basic digital camera.

The downside is the really low battery life: 2-3 hours tops. But for really basic computing, this is already a good deal, I think.

Read more about it here, here and here.

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