{"id":449,"date":"2007-12-31T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T09:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2007-12-31T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T09:58:43","slug":"the-year-the-internet-lost-the-cloak-of-anonimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-year-the-internet-lost-the-cloak-of-anonimity\/","title":{"rendered":"The year the Internet lost the cloak of anonimity."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>This has to be the year where I have met the most people online before meeting them in person, which is quite amusing. It&#8217;s also the year that warzabidul as a nickname became a person in the physical world to more than two or three people. It&#8217;s the year an online person become a nickname for a real person.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the year where, at least for early adopters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seesmic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seesmic<\/a> both helped create opportunities for people to meet and get to know each other online before taking it back into the physical world. It&#8217;s the year I went to a Podcamp, some tweetups and some seesm&#8217;up. It&#8217;s the year many of us stopped hiding behind avatars and nicknames and moved towards creating a brand or identity, depending on whether your point of view is that of marketing or personal fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed learning about the &#8220;social media&#8221; and all the new possibilities. I look forward to 2008 when many more such networks and events will be organised. It&#8217;s been a fun year to be introduced to the &#8220;Social Media&#8221; and I&#8217;m happy to have met so many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>This has to be the year where I have met the most people online before meeting them in person, which is quite amusing. It&#8217;s also the year that warzabidul as a nickname became a person in the physical world to more than two or three people. It&#8217;s the year an online person become a nickname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,38,48,25,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","category-seesmic","category-social-media","category-social-networking","category-tech-related","category-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}