The different personas of early tech adopters
Posted by strom on August 7, 2007
Within the bleeding edge are five different personas of early adopters who all spread the word from the epicenter: The Pebble, Swimmer, Surfer, Boater, or with the Fleet itself. It is a cute but telling mechanism to divide how we all consume technology, care of Jeremiah Owyang’s blog post here.
He says: “I watch these early adopters, watch how they break tools, and then I adopt. I mainly want to understand these tools so my clients won’t have to break them, but rather use them right.”
I try to operate on all five levels, depending on the particular tech, but try to be a pebble on many of the networking and security ones. The trick is not to be swept away by a tidal wave of misery when those pebbles sink to the ocean bottom.
