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I really like that he termed a website an "operating system." It's funny to see what kind of weird stuff comes out of the mind of rock stars only surrounded with yes men.



I could see how he could come up with that if he was thinking about it as a system that provides services for a band's operations.


People refer to Facebook as an "operating system":

http://www.redherring.com/Home/23046

or

http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+operating+system


Maybe my experience has been skewed, but every person I know that has referred to an entity as a web operating system has been full of shit.


That's mostly because its founder originally did so. I highly doubt that you'll find someone referring to Facebook as an operating system prior to that.


Indeed. The average person's idea of an "operating system" is what they see on the screen and interact with. It's more of a portal.

Whereas us computer sciency people know that's only the icing on the cake of an "operating system".




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