{"id":1417,"date":"2009-02-28T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2009-02-28T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:40:50","slug":"leveraging-unexpected-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2009\/02\/leveraging-unexpected-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging unexpected uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\" data=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/EvanWilliams_2009-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/EvanWilliams-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=473\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/evan_williams_on_listening_to_twitter_users.html\">TED talk<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ev\">Evan Williams<\/a> (co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>) revealing that many of the ideas driving <span class=\"tweet_text\">Twitter&#8217;s explosive growth<\/span> came from unexpected uses, i.e. were invented by the users themselves or by people working on side projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter has won a small army of lifecasting converts, with its bite-sized notes and instant-gratification communication. Co-founder Evan Williams reveals some startling things he&#8217;s learned from Twitter users, and the way they&#8217;ve driven his business forward (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2009\/02\/evan_williams_o.php\">TED blog<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Viva<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/?s=serendipity\">serendipity<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice TED talk by Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter) revealing that many of the ideas driving Twitter&#8217;s explosive growth came from unexpected uses, i.e. were invented by the users themselves or by people working on side projects. Twitter has won a small army of lifecasting converts, with its bite-sized notes and instant-gratification communication. Co-founder Evan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6,8],"tags":[26,233,503,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}