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I'm not impressed by posts that say "I've got a secret and I'm not telling you."

If you don't have any thing to say, don't.

I tend to agree. It's one of the more frustrating marketing tactics.

But who you gonna blame? The marketers who try the "I have a secret and I'm not telling you" line in an attempt to build viral buzz, or the people who fall for it and start creating that buzz? ("OOoooooh, a secret, how exciting! I wonder what it could possibly be!")

At the time of writing at least 14 people have decided that this information-free teaser is worth upvoting. Why did you do it, folks?

The older I get, the more careful I get about guarding my brain cells from pointless speculation about information that will seem incredibly prosaic once I've actually heard it.

It was on good faith; upvote ('yay!') open a tab. But, frustrating as it is it's not quite info. free, we do now know /that/ it's getting an upgrade.

Seems like Tinker.it are just trying to drum up interest in the Arduino and to get more people talking about it.

I can't really fault them as some people may be exposed to the open source electronics prototyping platform from the chatter, that may have not otherwise noticed.

I got a feel that the next iteration of arduino is coming. Frankly, I am excited.

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