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title: "Microsize me"
date: 2010-07-31
canonical: https://michaelshadle.com/2010/07/30/microsize-me
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# Microsize me

The world is getting smaller.  

  
-   AT&T's got a [Femtocell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell) called a "MicroCell"
  
-   PayPal is an example of a "[micropayment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment)" service
  
-   [Microformats](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat) are becoming increasingly popular to add more metadata into websites, mainly for richer machine processing
  
-   [MicroATX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroATX) is one of many small form factors. However, not as small as Nano-ITX, Mini-ITX
  
-   [Twitter](http://twitter.com) is the world's most popular "[Microblogging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging)" service
  
-   Need to clean something fragile? [Microfiber](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfiber) cloths are typically used to clean luxury cars, computer parts, screens, etc.
  
-   Those small tweaks to squeeze out a little bit more performance? [Micro-optimizations](http://michaelshadle.com/php-optimization) can be useful or can be a pain. It's up to you to decide what is worth it or not.
  

  

In this world of larger cars, larger boats, larger cruise ships, larger meals, just remember this - a lot of things are getting smaller. Typically technology... but I threw in another couple terms I seem to say often.

Update:

I forgot, [microexpressions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression), now being made a household name thanks to the TV show "Lie to Me" (highly recommended show, btw.)