“What happens when your cheerleader quits on you? You get a much less responsive crowd, that’s what. Or you get dropped. Something like that.

“Do you ever wonder about the stories behind everyday products? What names were Procter & Gamble considering before they finally picked “Swiffer”? (Springle? Sweepolio? Dirtrocker?) What flavors of Pop-Tarts never made it out of the lab, and did any involve lychee, the devil’s fruit? What magical prototype Apple products will never be seen, forever relegated to some giant, Wonka-esque industrial design factory that might exist only in my imagination? (“Oompa, loompa, diggity-dack: come take a peek at this dodecahedron-Mac!”)

“In the high-tech world, divergence devices have been spectacular successes. But convergence devices, for the most part, have been spectacular failures.

“Gilchrist was the difference between Sri Lanka and Australia at the World Cup final.

“You can now share photo albums in your chats with Google Talk. Paste a Picasa web URL into your chat, and you can scroll through a slideshow of the album right in your conversation.

“Fifth Third traces its origins to the Bank of the Ohio Valley, which opened its doors in Cincinnati in 1858. In 1871, that bank was purchased by the Third National Bank. With the turn of the century came the union of the Third National Bank and the Fifth National Bank, and eventually the organization became known as “Fifth Third Bank.

“..to distinguish a signature-generating script from a plain signature file, append a ‘|’ to the name of the signature-file setting.

“First time panic attacks are usually one of the worst experiences of a person’s life.

“Video is harder for a computer to deal with. But people are more likely to create video about themselves than to create text.

“..‘value’ in social apps is related to your distance to the app.