Catchword: Try Me virus

Filed Under: English, Online, Technology, New or Nonce

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: I suspect Second Life is largely a “Try Me” virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited. The pattern of a Try Me virus is a rapid spread of first time users, most of whom drop out quickly, with most of the dropouts becoming immune to later use. Pointcast was a Try Me virus, as was LambdaMOO, the experiment that Second Life most closely resembles.

Article or Document Title:
“A story too good to check” (URL)

Author:
Clay Shirky

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Valleywag

Date of Publication:
Dec. 12, 2006

This catchword has yet to be researched.