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Fac"e"book --> Tumblr.. moving towards Gen V(Virtual) .. POS

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...

Wh"e"re's Google headed ...

Google - a company that has literally reinvented the wheel by having a business that runs entirely in a virtual world. It's like having a whole new world with its own countries, states, languages, politicians, musicians, movie makers, scientists, doctors and a continuous aggregating population that's all gaga about this virtual world. When I think how Google has evolved in the last 10-12 years from being a search engine dedicated to the Stanford University to now being a company that seems to be making the moves that no other company can match. AdSense & AdWords, Doubleclick , Orkut, Google maps, Google grid, blogger, Google checkout, translator and they all have direct competitors in aQuantive , Real, Facebook , Yahoo maps, Paypal ( who had imagined Google's credibility to be at par with paypal ) ... and to sum it all a solid user profiling by means of : The Google cookie Personalized search G-mail (All the contents of mail are actually scanned by Google) Google docum...