From post: "Yes, it’s entirely plausible that all this social networking blogosphere stuff is like a giant MMPORG that has a similarly limited appeal." - Hutch Carpenter
Cute! (1) “Joe Average Test” (2) “Spousal Approval Test” (3) “Aged Relative Test” (4) “David Letterman Top Ten List” Test - What do mainstream users want? (1) Make It So Simple, A Chimp Could Do It (2) Be Useful (3) Don’t Make Me Do Anything Hard Or New (4) Privacy (5) Email Is Social Enough - Mitchell Tsai
The "Email is social enough" observation is spot on. I was talking to Corvida about that a few days ago and we were talking about what is the main tool mainstream users use to connect: email. And even that doesn't come easy for a lot of people. Quick thought: A twitter with payloads and without character limits might be easier to use than email... - Frederic
i have actually had elder relatives send me emails about both digg and twitter, read about both on mainstream news sites - MG Siegler
@MG - Actually after Twiter was mentioned on Cnn.com it became the most popular story of the day so that means that many of the "mainstream" audience went and check it out. - Gadiel Rivera
I use the spousal approval test all the time. Showed my new iPhone to my wife. She was pretty impressed by it. I asked her if she wanted one too. She said "Dude, I just want to make calls and SMS. I don't need that.". I love her ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
My wife said she didn't want one either, but now won't trade it for any other phone. I love her too! - Robert Scoble
Robert be honest. Did she really want it or did you just switch phones when she was asleep ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
