Sure, people lined up at 5 a.m. Sure there was more live blogging and live Twittering than any one person could consume. But today’s MacWorld keynote was generally deemed a snore. Live Twitter comments ranged from “Meh” to “I hate this is considered big news” to “I just fell asleep.” There was no Steve Jobs and all about the Mac. In fact, the most buzzed about MacWorld artifact today was this
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Sure, people lined up at 5 a.m. Sure there was more live blogging and live Twittering than any one person could consume. But today’s MacWorld keynote was generally deemed a snore. Live Twitter comments ranged from “Meh” to “I hate this is considered big news” to “I just fell asleep.” There was no Steve Jobs and all about the Mac. In fact, the most buzzed about MacWorld artifact today was this Onion Video on the fictional MacBook “Wheel.” You know it’s boring when fictional product launches are stealing the spotlight. More exciting—in a bad way—was yesterday’s Twitter hacking. Thirty-three celebrities from CNN’s Rick Sanchez to Britney Spears had their Twitter accounts hacked and at least from a wisecracking hacker’s point of view, hilarity ensued. The celebrities and Twitter didn’t find it so funny. Michael Arrington points the finger at someone called the “DigitalGangster” and expects some arrests to come. It’s unwelcome timing for Twitter, after a New York Times article last weekend trumpeted how many celebrities were embracing the site. As 2009 gets going, we’re seeing more reports of layoffs and companies getting perilously close to shutting down, and there’s no doubt in my mind, a lot of them will be online video companies started in the wake of YouTube that never broke out in the same way. But the trend of watching videos online is soaring: comScore reported that time spent watching videos online jumped a whopping 40% in one year. The number of videos watched jumped 34%. The number of people watching videos online only rose 6% but that’s partially because it’s already about three-quarters of the entire Internet user base.
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