Killer App

What is Killer App?


1.

stands for killer application. Used to describe a game/application that really makes a system/computer.

Halo was the killer app for the Xbox

2.

"An application that proves the usefulness of the underlying technologies"

Defined by Jawed Karem in the speech "YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth" held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ACM Conference, Oct 21, 2006. (youtube/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg)

A typical killer application:

- the first spreadsheet application

Killer apps in the internet domain:

- Wikipedia

- LiveJournal

- MySpace

- Flickr

- YouTube

See killer app, youtube, spreadsheet


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