death knell

Long before Facebook and Twitpic, photos were shared by simply handing someone a print. No camera made this easier than the once-ubiquitous Polaroid.

Nothing represented instant gratification better in the film era than having a print develop before your eyes, ready to hand out in a minute.

Unfortunately for Polaroid, the advent of digital photography sounded the death knell for its iconic instant print cameras.

A brief reprieve in the form of inexpensive sticker-printing versions was ended by the cellphone camera revolution.

YOU may not have heard it, but the death knell of Facebook sounded about a month ago — more precisely, on Thursday, Aug. 4, around 8 p.m.

Central time. It wasn’t because....

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "You've probably read one of the many articles going around recently about how you should be preparing to incorporate Macs into your network environment.

Save yourself the bother: Google's announcement of its Chrome OS last month sounded the death knell for the prospects of Macs in the enterprise."

Pardon My Punditry: "Not atypically for this sort of thing, it's coupled with another prediction of the demise of Microsoft and proprietary software in general.

Is it likely that we have actually heard a "death knell" for the proprietary approach?"

geek.com: "Open source (and in many cases open platforms) is headed our way in force. That's the message coming out of every major manufacturing company today."