Killer Apps

A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app), in the jargon of computer programmers and video gamers, has come to mean any program, particularly a minor one, that is ingeniously coded or unexpectedly useful. Originally, and more broadly, "killer app" has been used to refer to any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it provides the core value of some larger technology, such as a gaming console, software, operating system, or piece of computer hardware.
One of the first examples of a killer application is generally agreed to be the VisiCalc spreadsheet on the Apple II platform (see picture). The machine was purchased in the thousands by finance workers (in particular, bond traders) on the strength of this one program.
In this sense, a killer app substantially increases sales of the hardware that supports it: the next example is another spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3. Sales of IBM's PC had been slow until 1-2-3 was made public; the IBM became the best-selling computer only a few months after Lotus 1-2-3's initial release.
What's more, a killer app can provide an important niche market for a non-mainstream platform. Aldus PageMaker and Adobe PostScript gave the graphic design and desktop publishing niche to the Apple Macintosh in the late 1980s, a niche it retains to this day despite the fact that PCs running Windows have been capable of running versions of the same applications since the early 1990s.

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I currently work in a company that employs 65 salaries. It is located in Paris in the 15th arrondissement on the street called Rue Maubert. Its sells children’s software.

It benefits from government subsidies from the state to hire young interns. That is how I got my job which is entitled "sales representative". At first, my job title was "marketing manager", but I changed jobs.

We sell a range of products with the brand Youngsoft. We have many marketing expenses. Our display advertising in the metro is one of the most expensive. Our PR department also has a very large budget. We create our own commercials with our copywriting staff, and we do our own edition of user manuals.

Our quarterly results for this year have all been very positive. The market we are in is very interesting right now, and that is why we are making profits.

We want to sell our products in Tahiti because we think overseas customers would be interested in buying them.

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The Pirate Bay

This videoclip is from the Swedish TV show called "Bert" on TV8 (03/24/07) and shows one of The Pirate Bay website's founder. In this interview, he admits that TPB has been sponsored by Carl Lundstrom, a well-known right-wing extremist in Sweden.
The Pirate Bay is a torrent search engine that caused a huge controversy in Sweden: the website's office were raided in may 2006 by swedish police and their servers were confiscated for three days.

This logo design is a mockery at MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), which announced a few days after attempting to shut down the servers that they had "sunk The Pirate Bay". People at The Pirate Bay forums, irc and other discussion channels have made the humorous comment that at the end, they might, with due effort, be able to sink a ship, but they definitely cannot sink a bay.