We would like to make sure that not just geeks use the cloud, but also every single user with a smartphone has a good cloud experience".
Upton says the majority are "adult geeks" using it for home-brew robotics, media players, or high-altitude balloons.
I know plenty of geeks using Brightkite in the UK, but it's far less likely to go as viral as Foursquare's game has already in the US.
Aviation geeks using airport data from X-Plane, a flight simulator website, have identified more than 600 runways within range of the nearly 3,000 miles that the plane could have traveled from Kuala Lumpur.
For many years, most geeks used TrueCrypt for this purpose.
Did geeks use oscilloscope probes to eat takeaway noodles?
Corporate geeks used Graffiti, the PalmPilot's handwriting-recognition alphabet, even on whiteboards and notepads.
Instead, it was a service that early-adopter geeks used to follow one another.
The perception of geeks used to be that we lived in darkened houses constantly hunched over computers, never seeing the light of day.
Even if you haven't yet fallen into the craft beer rabbit hole — a warren of minutia and terminology that can make even a brewer's head spin — it's helpful to get a grasp on some of the more common terms that beer writers and beer geeks use to discuss the beverage that enthralls them.
