"e"xperience sharing

Ever evolving, changing and adapting world - keeping away from blogging hasn't stopped the thought process. While I was keeping myself busy into work it was exciting one day when I got a facebook invitation from my father; it was very interesting to watch this and how the Baby boomers too are gradually trying to get into the Gen V world and the late entry into the online space is not stopping them from taking a plunge in it. I had a series of blogs on some of those most famous web spaces and how they will be evolving their business models. One of them was on where Linked in could be headed to , and am sure it wasn't just me who had foreseen that - but recession has really made some of my expectations (I don't want to be called a braggart by calling them predictions) come true: Increased the presence of Social networking and making them the 4 th most popular online activity ahead of personal mail The entire world except for most of the countries in Africa have presence fr...

Link"e"d in as the name says really has been instrumental in creation of one of the strongest and inviolable networks (one of its kind as there aren't many professional networks in this sea of social networking sites). And very easily Linked in has scaled up beyond being just a professional network to a combination of network and job portal that's has quality jobs (or does it not..) What's surprising about Linked in is that while there were pioneers like monster, dice, jobsearch , ladders (Another website with a different model of functioning), sixfugurejobs (quite an ambitious name) who have been working on assisting jobseekers and headhunters to get the right fit, but post the advent of Linked in I personally feel that the process of job search will actually alter in the coming few years. I really don't know what could one get by the recommendations in Orkut or Facebook except for some ego massage but in Linked in the recommendations assist the user to a...

Recently " Tumblr " founder David Karp was in picture for having come up with one of the easiest platform for users to start blogging and I decided to have myself registered into it. When I looked at the features I realized that there is nothing out there that can differentiate Tumblr with other blogging sites, but that's what it is and we already have .17 mn registered users on that website. So what does this imply - are we saying that tomorrow Facebook , Orkut, Twitter and others will have to get meatier to keep up with the competition, or will they just the way they always have - will keep churning more users and keep making money out of the advertisements?  Atleast, that's the only mode of making money that these social networking sites have and the model seems to be well accepted in the e-business world. But do we see an evolution in these social networking websites. Are these   social networking sites going to remain what they are with the several widge...