Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
The only aim of a person to live on is that he is happy or is the hope that he is going to be happy. What makes a person happy is a highly subjective thing. That is why measuring the Gross National Happiness is the hardest thing to do.
So let us come to the point what makes a person happy. Money, Achievement, status, Power, Authority, Altruism...what among these make a person happy. Human beings inherently are selfish and envious. So let us call this specimen a HOMOECONOMICUS who will act only in his self interest, what ever might be the situation.
So, a person has different motivations and he feels that money makes him the happiest. But the problem comes when the person next to him has more money. HOMOECONOMICUS prays to God that he get more money than the next person and in extreme case of jealousy will also want to destroy the wealth of his neighbour. So, with what level of money that a person will be satisfied.
There is no feasible end to this endless greed of HOMOECONOMICUS. He only craves for more more and more..like midas who wanted to change everything he has into Gold.
In the present rat race of accumulation of power and money HOMOECONOMICUS could not come to a conclusion about where he has to stop. Where the tipping point has reached, when it is enough.
So, to summarize will a HOMOECONOMICUS will ever be happy in his entire life or will he die an unsatisfied person. Whether the words Content and satisfaction has any meaning in this world.
Is pursuit of happyness an eloquent hyperbole....
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Nothingness
When a person's existence revolves around a single man/woman and suddenly they disappear, then there is nothing to cling on to except for hope, a bit of faith and a lot of desperation.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Benefactors of Recession
The "R" word has been the dreaded one in every ones mind since the past two years, especially in the case of the hallowed portals of business schools which has been hit hard.
The students who have been expecting big big bucks were left to squabble over whether they will get jobs or not. The ones who has jobs were considered to be the lucky ones albeit least paid and in lesser fancied companies. The companies which gave offers in numbers which are quite obscene (double digit offers) made their offers even more obscene during the phase of recession (no offers).
So, in this scenario many have joined their offered jobs with enthusiasm and a bit of skepticism in their mind. But, the little bit of skepticism turned out to out weigh the enthusiasm as their pay has been cut from the then lower levels to even lower levels i.e. to the extent of 25% and some students who are eagerly waiting to join their dream job, were told to dream a bit more and join a bit later.
Now, I came across a news in Forbes magazine where Buffett wrote, "We've put a lot of money to work during the chaos of the last two years. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."
Many Industrialists did just that. Indeed, last year's wealth wasteland has become a billionaire bonanza. Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year.
This year the World's Billionaires have an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months. The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in 2008. Of those billionaires on last year's list, only 12% saw their fortunes decline.
The companies are taking Recession as the God given weapon to wreak havoc in the lives of many innocent lives. There has been indiscriminate firing of employees and also indiscriminate cut in wages. There have been obscene number of mergers and take overs during this R-Period. But none of the companies gave their employees any hike and they are just using recession as an excuse to increase their bottom line at the cost of employees and other stake holders.
The conclusion that one can arrive after seeing the scenario in these two years is that only billionaires and their muse companies benefited from this Recession, which in part is the manifestation of their GREED. So due to the Greed of some many common people have suffered. Power and Money is absolute, those who have it can manipulate the lives of many through creative destruction.
The students who have been expecting big big bucks were left to squabble over whether they will get jobs or not. The ones who has jobs were considered to be the lucky ones albeit least paid and in lesser fancied companies. The companies which gave offers in numbers which are quite obscene (double digit offers) made their offers even more obscene during the phase of recession (no offers).
So, in this scenario many have joined their offered jobs with enthusiasm and a bit of skepticism in their mind. But, the little bit of skepticism turned out to out weigh the enthusiasm as their pay has been cut from the then lower levels to even lower levels i.e. to the extent of 25% and some students who are eagerly waiting to join their dream job, were told to dream a bit more and join a bit later.
Now, I came across a news in Forbes magazine where Buffett wrote, "We've put a lot of money to work during the chaos of the last two years. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."
Many Industrialists did just that. Indeed, last year's wealth wasteland has become a billionaire bonanza. Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year.
This year the World's Billionaires have an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months. The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in 2008. Of those billionaires on last year's list, only 12% saw their fortunes decline.
The companies are taking Recession as the God given weapon to wreak havoc in the lives of many innocent lives. There has been indiscriminate firing of employees and also indiscriminate cut in wages. There have been obscene number of mergers and take overs during this R-Period. But none of the companies gave their employees any hike and they are just using recession as an excuse to increase their bottom line at the cost of employees and other stake holders.
The conclusion that one can arrive after seeing the scenario in these two years is that only billionaires and their muse companies benefited from this Recession, which in part is the manifestation of their GREED. So due to the Greed of some many common people have suffered. Power and Money is absolute, those who have it can manipulate the lives of many through creative destruction.
Monday, March 8, 2010
The Case of an abandoned Bag
It was Holi day/ a holiday i.e. March 1st. I was travelling back from home to Bangalore. As usual the booking was done in tatkal and the railway station and the train were over crowded.
By chance or by destiny I arrived at the Kachiguda station a full 30 minutes early. walked around the station looking for some familiar faces, as always the case could not find even one. So, cursing my fate to travel alone, went to find my seat in the train, Bangalore Express.
Went to my seat after crossing various hurdles in between. I was kind of surprised to see that the entire seats were occupied prior to my arrival and there was a blue bag kept on my seat.
I kept my luggage on my berth and wanted to go down and do bird watching, but there was no one visible on the entire platform. I got back to my seat and again saw the blue bag, by that time all the seats were occupied and I asked the people over there, does it belong to any one of them.
No one claimed it, my analytical brain started ticking and I smelt some foul play. The old couple said that a young person in a blue t-shirt kept it there and left. It was only like 10 minutes to the start and I decided 2 be a "HERO" as a pretty girl was sitting next 2 the bag.
I with all my courage, opened the bag a little and saw a large tiffin box, this was the last straw,all the bomb blasts of Hyderabad, Mumbai and the recent one at Pune played in my mind. I took my bag and left the compartment and complained to the RPF(Railway Protection Force). The Officer was more brave than me and he asked me to get the bag out, which I firmly refused.
The officer did not dare to even touch the damn bag and he kept the bag at where he was. Rest of the people in my compartment came out along with me. Suddenly I was having a sense of elation and also bit of worry in my mind, what is going to happen.
I would be a hypocrite if I say that I was not scared. I was shit scared but did not let that emotion over power me. I was telling to myself that I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
The pretty girl in the compartment, came to me and asked "what should we do now?" Do all the pretty girls are so dumb. How in the hell would I know what should we do. Did she expect me to open the bag and diffuse the bomb. I always like to impress girls but not by keeping my life on the line.
I asked her to board in next compartment, and added a rider that there is no guarentee that there would not be another bag like this in the other compartment. She was like dead scared and started to tow me every where.
Till that time the bag was not evacuated from the compartment. So much for the efficiency of Police force in India. I thought that they would start evacuating and the train would get late and all, but it was not happening.
There were only 5 minutes left for the train to leave and no sight of the owner of the bag. People in my compartment left for other places. Then one brave police took the bag on to the platform.
I could hear a voice in my head that run buddy run,,, no need to be a hero, u can get a nice girl if u'll live not if you are dead. Some RPF men gathered near the bag, but they did not dare to open it. I thought what the hell, would they be calling a bomb disposal squad or what.
Then suddenly there was an announcement that the train was ready to leave the platform, I boarded the train and felt that if it would go off, it should go off now.
Then the train chugging along and the bag was left on the platform.
Out of no where the owner of the bag came asked where his bag was, we told him that it was on the platform. He went to the door and luckily the police personnel gave it to him while the train is on the run.
I breathed a sigh of relief that it was not what I thought it was. The person who left his bag, told us that he said to the old couple to look after the bag and he also added that he told them that there were no bombs in the bag :P
I was like completely pissed off with the attitude of the person in question. He was an educated person and he was shouting at us for taking his bag out. We told him that it was a necessary precaution, to avert a greater danger but then also he was like drooling on. I stepped up and told him that why didn't he even bother to check whether his luggage is alright or not for 30 minutes. He became silent and started blaming the old couple.
Our country needs to be more vigilant in these turbulent times and the attitude of people should improve. Until this happens we would see more of 26/11, Pune blasts etc.
By chance or by destiny I arrived at the Kachiguda station a full 30 minutes early. walked around the station looking for some familiar faces, as always the case could not find even one. So, cursing my fate to travel alone, went to find my seat in the train, Bangalore Express.
Went to my seat after crossing various hurdles in between. I was kind of surprised to see that the entire seats were occupied prior to my arrival and there was a blue bag kept on my seat.
I kept my luggage on my berth and wanted to go down and do bird watching, but there was no one visible on the entire platform. I got back to my seat and again saw the blue bag, by that time all the seats were occupied and I asked the people over there, does it belong to any one of them.
No one claimed it, my analytical brain started ticking and I smelt some foul play. The old couple said that a young person in a blue t-shirt kept it there and left. It was only like 10 minutes to the start and I decided 2 be a "HERO" as a pretty girl was sitting next 2 the bag.
I with all my courage, opened the bag a little and saw a large tiffin box, this was the last straw,all the bomb blasts of Hyderabad, Mumbai and the recent one at Pune played in my mind. I took my bag and left the compartment and complained to the RPF(Railway Protection Force). The Officer was more brave than me and he asked me to get the bag out, which I firmly refused.
The officer did not dare to even touch the damn bag and he kept the bag at where he was. Rest of the people in my compartment came out along with me. Suddenly I was having a sense of elation and also bit of worry in my mind, what is going to happen.
I would be a hypocrite if I say that I was not scared. I was shit scared but did not let that emotion over power me. I was telling to myself that I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
The pretty girl in the compartment, came to me and asked "what should we do now?" Do all the pretty girls are so dumb. How in the hell would I know what should we do. Did she expect me to open the bag and diffuse the bomb. I always like to impress girls but not by keeping my life on the line.
I asked her to board in next compartment, and added a rider that there is no guarentee that there would not be another bag like this in the other compartment. She was like dead scared and started to tow me every where.
Till that time the bag was not evacuated from the compartment. So much for the efficiency of Police force in India. I thought that they would start evacuating and the train would get late and all, but it was not happening.
There were only 5 minutes left for the train to leave and no sight of the owner of the bag. People in my compartment left for other places. Then one brave police took the bag on to the platform.
I could hear a voice in my head that run buddy run,,, no need to be a hero, u can get a nice girl if u'll live not if you are dead. Some RPF men gathered near the bag, but they did not dare to open it. I thought what the hell, would they be calling a bomb disposal squad or what.
Then suddenly there was an announcement that the train was ready to leave the platform, I boarded the train and felt that if it would go off, it should go off now.
Then the train chugging along and the bag was left on the platform.
Out of no where the owner of the bag came asked where his bag was, we told him that it was on the platform. He went to the door and luckily the police personnel gave it to him while the train is on the run.
I breathed a sigh of relief that it was not what I thought it was. The person who left his bag, told us that he said to the old couple to look after the bag and he also added that he told them that there were no bombs in the bag :P
I was like completely pissed off with the attitude of the person in question. He was an educated person and he was shouting at us for taking his bag out. We told him that it was a necessary precaution, to avert a greater danger but then also he was like drooling on. I stepped up and told him that why didn't he even bother to check whether his luggage is alright or not for 30 minutes. He became silent and started blaming the old couple.
Our country needs to be more vigilant in these turbulent times and the attitude of people should improve. Until this happens we would see more of 26/11, Pune blasts etc.
Monday, January 18, 2010
AVATAR- An INDIAN Connection
Avatar...should we recommend it as the 8th wonder of the world...that might be too far fetched but alas it is a magical world and kudos to the creativity of James Cameron for giving us such a wonderful masterpiece.
I was very eager to watch Avatar, but postponed my gratification as I want to experience the spectacle on the biggest screen in India.....IMAX in Hyderabad. Alas the wait was worth in Gold and I watched d movie twice....tht too back to back. It is not to do with the story line and climax... they were pretty tepid and predictable, but it has more to do with the amazing 3D spectacle and the grand canvas on which it is pictured.
The floating mountains of Pandora called haleluya, the night life at pandora which was breath taking and the various creatures just made me see the scale of imagination that a Human Being can have.
This movie has shown to us how greed will ruin us and also about how a "white man" can save other races.
Now coming to the Indian Connection,
The name Avatar is taken from sanskrit or the Hindu Mythology where in Lord vishnu takes the form of human like Rama & Krishna to protect the Earth from evil.
The Blue colour concept came from Lord Krishna. Indian Mythology has inspired Cameron to have the Navi people in blue colour.
The concept of Linking the brain of a person to other body has been present in India since time immemorial, that is called as "Para Kaya Pravesh" literal translation meaning, entering others body. The equivalent in Japanese is the Shintenshin...i.e. the body mind transfer.
The worship of the giant tree with the tree with lots of roots is like a banyan tree which spreads its roots through a large area.
Atlast the Turuk was like the Garuda, who Lord Vishnu rides and destroys the evil.
P.S:- TO enjoy the movie the way it is, Please watch it in IMAX. U can see the Magical world and u can feel the heat of fire and also the gust of wind.
I was very eager to watch Avatar, but postponed my gratification as I want to experience the spectacle on the biggest screen in India.....IMAX in Hyderabad. Alas the wait was worth in Gold and I watched d movie twice....tht too back to back. It is not to do with the story line and climax... they were pretty tepid and predictable, but it has more to do with the amazing 3D spectacle and the grand canvas on which it is pictured.
The floating mountains of Pandora called haleluya, the night life at pandora which was breath taking and the various creatures just made me see the scale of imagination that a Human Being can have.
This movie has shown to us how greed will ruin us and also about how a "white man" can save other races.
Now coming to the Indian Connection,
The name Avatar is taken from sanskrit or the Hindu Mythology where in Lord vishnu takes the form of human like Rama & Krishna to protect the Earth from evil.
The Blue colour concept came from Lord Krishna. Indian Mythology has inspired Cameron to have the Navi people in blue colour.
The concept of Linking the brain of a person to other body has been present in India since time immemorial, that is called as "Para Kaya Pravesh" literal translation meaning, entering others body. The equivalent in Japanese is the Shintenshin...i.e. the body mind transfer.
The worship of the giant tree with the tree with lots of roots is like a banyan tree which spreads its roots through a large area.
Atlast the Turuk was like the Garuda, who Lord Vishnu rides and destroys the evil.
P.S:- TO enjoy the movie the way it is, Please watch it in IMAX. U can see the Magical world and u can feel the heat of fire and also the gust of wind.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Regionalism
Our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has outlined regionalism as one of the threats to Indian National Integration along side of terrorism, naxalism and poverty. India is not a homogeneous country like many other. It is the largest democracy in the world with varied cultures, languages and regions. The strength of our country has always been its tolerance and its ability to absorb different influencing cultures and create its own.
No other country in the world has such diverse regions, cultures, languages and religions co existing together for centuries. India has with stood the onslaught of Moslems from persia and Afghanistan and it with stood the cultural hara kiri done by the Britishers. These are the best examples for the resilience and the adaptability of the Indian Nation.
Recently there have been incidents which threaten the sensitive national fabric of the country under the veil of nationalism and sons of soil movement. I believe that India is for all Indian citizens and they are at a liberty to pursue their profession any where in the country. This is the right that has been granted by our constitution.
There have been incidents which have been roused by the selfish political parties to create divisions among the people and to leverage on them to garner votes. These divisive forces should not be given a toe hold in our mind as they tend to destroy its sane thinking and to provoke people to do dastardly acts of violence.
People are inherently good and they strive to do good for the society unless or until acted upon an external force. The present Telangana Movement is the zenith of the divisive politics by some political parties which are fighting for their existence and they are stoking the emotions of the people to achieve their own selfish ends.
Just 4 months ago when YSR was alive and kicking there was not even a single voice raising the "Telangana" slogan and suddenly the landscape of the entire state of Andhra Pradesh has changed with agitations and dharnas which stifle the normal life and create innumerable difficulties for ordinary people... "aam aadmi"
The Congress party which lost the most influential leader at the top wanted to destroy the foundation on which Telugu Desam Party is built and by announcing on midnight that the procedure for Telangana has started. But it did not expect the public retribution and back tracked its statement. As you will sow, so you will reap. The strategy of the COngress has been to deliver two blows with one punch one was to marginalize TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the other was to prevent Jagan from becoming the Chief Minister.
It has not achieved its objective and to gain its selfish ends it has created divisions in a peaceful state and made our state a burning conundrum. The political parties have divided according to regional lines and they are pursuing their own motives.
In the end the looser of the whole drama is the aam aadmi and the industries in Andhra Pradesh which are loosing their valuable man days.
This is the scenario in Andhra pradesh and in Maharashtra MNS on the plank of Marathi Manoos or Marathi self respect is driving terror into the minds of simple minded Maharashtrians to kick out the people who don't speak Marathi out of Maharashtra/Mumbai.
Recently when I was traveling a person who works for state Government of Karnataka has asked me where are you from?
I told him I'm from Hyderabad. He told me why did you come to Bangalore and do a job here rather than in Hyderabad.
His attitude has miffed me. Here is a person who is highly educated and "Cultured" asking me to go to my home town rather than working in other place. If this is the case with an educated person, my worry is what about the masses. This has got me wondering where our New India is headed to.
In Karnataka I see all the sign boards in Kannada. In Tamilnadu and Maharashtra it is the same case. Language is a sensitive issue but it should not be at the level where it would hurt others feelings and sentiments. One has to love his own language but these political parties has turned it to Hate all other languages.
We have to be tolerant to other cultures and respect them, this is what our long last heritage has taught us. United we stand divided we fall. If in every region people only want their own people to live then the India that our fore fathers has envisioned is short lived. We have to be broad minded and accept other people and cultures. That is the essence of the co existence in this flat world.
No other country in the world has such diverse regions, cultures, languages and religions co existing together for centuries. India has with stood the onslaught of Moslems from persia and Afghanistan and it with stood the cultural hara kiri done by the Britishers. These are the best examples for the resilience and the adaptability of the Indian Nation.
Recently there have been incidents which threaten the sensitive national fabric of the country under the veil of nationalism and sons of soil movement. I believe that India is for all Indian citizens and they are at a liberty to pursue their profession any where in the country. This is the right that has been granted by our constitution.
There have been incidents which have been roused by the selfish political parties to create divisions among the people and to leverage on them to garner votes. These divisive forces should not be given a toe hold in our mind as they tend to destroy its sane thinking and to provoke people to do dastardly acts of violence.
People are inherently good and they strive to do good for the society unless or until acted upon an external force. The present Telangana Movement is the zenith of the divisive politics by some political parties which are fighting for their existence and they are stoking the emotions of the people to achieve their own selfish ends.
Just 4 months ago when YSR was alive and kicking there was not even a single voice raising the "Telangana" slogan and suddenly the landscape of the entire state of Andhra Pradesh has changed with agitations and dharnas which stifle the normal life and create innumerable difficulties for ordinary people... "aam aadmi"
The Congress party which lost the most influential leader at the top wanted to destroy the foundation on which Telugu Desam Party is built and by announcing on midnight that the procedure for Telangana has started. But it did not expect the public retribution and back tracked its statement. As you will sow, so you will reap. The strategy of the COngress has been to deliver two blows with one punch one was to marginalize TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the other was to prevent Jagan from becoming the Chief Minister.
It has not achieved its objective and to gain its selfish ends it has created divisions in a peaceful state and made our state a burning conundrum. The political parties have divided according to regional lines and they are pursuing their own motives.
In the end the looser of the whole drama is the aam aadmi and the industries in Andhra Pradesh which are loosing their valuable man days.
This is the scenario in Andhra pradesh and in Maharashtra MNS on the plank of Marathi Manoos or Marathi self respect is driving terror into the minds of simple minded Maharashtrians to kick out the people who don't speak Marathi out of Maharashtra/Mumbai.
Recently when I was traveling a person who works for state Government of Karnataka has asked me where are you from?
I told him I'm from Hyderabad. He told me why did you come to Bangalore and do a job here rather than in Hyderabad.
His attitude has miffed me. Here is a person who is highly educated and "Cultured" asking me to go to my home town rather than working in other place. If this is the case with an educated person, my worry is what about the masses. This has got me wondering where our New India is headed to.
In Karnataka I see all the sign boards in Kannada. In Tamilnadu and Maharashtra it is the same case. Language is a sensitive issue but it should not be at the level where it would hurt others feelings and sentiments. One has to love his own language but these political parties has turned it to Hate all other languages.
We have to be tolerant to other cultures and respect them, this is what our long last heritage has taught us. United we stand divided we fall. If in every region people only want their own people to live then the India that our fore fathers has envisioned is short lived. We have to be broad minded and accept other people and cultures. That is the essence of the co existence in this flat world.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Social Phenomena
I was wondering how people get to think in herds and about the recall value that people have. I wanted to do some research on the social phenomena that affect our life and how they can be used for the benefit of business enterprises.
The main factor that technology leverages on and becomes a mass phenomena is the sticky factor in the technology. If a new technology is a few years ahead of its time people have a barrier to accept it and the technology even if it is very useful will die a slow death.
In the recent months I want to compare three things viz.. The phenomena of Google Wave and that of Face book and Twitter. I do acknowledge that G-wave is still at its starting phase and it needs its time to peak. It is not a nice idea to compare all the three, but for the sake of understanding three different platforms at three different phases the three are the epitome.
The sticky factor in facebook is greater than that of twitter and that of G-wave. The major contributing factor for it is the number of your peers on both the networks and the ease of use.
The phenomena of micro blogging and twitter is sweeping the world and celebrities are latching on to it to post their "STATUS" on the move, the coming of celebrities has put the twitter phenomena on to the growth path and more over the multi usage of Twitter for small business and for marketing has increased its viability.
The Facebook brigade took India by storm. Till then all the youngsters were happy with Orkut and its scraps and communities. Facebook just swept Orkut out of the numero uno position in India and occupied it with in 6 months time.Huh! Thats pretty fast.
The growth in the Facebook is more linked with the amazing array of games it has, like Mafia wars and farm ville. These games were an integral part in the growth of Facebook phenomena in India, where people formed a community to have an Indian flag for farm ville to designate their nationality.
The Google wave is an extremely useful tool, and it will bring the new wave of revolution in web 2.0 in the way work is done and also in the way that people are going to interact. But it is still at its initial stage overcoming the hiccups to stand on its own feet. But it has the backing of Google and it will grow.
The peaking of a social networking tool starts when people join it in numbers and people only join when they see a certain amount of numbers. This in itself is a chicken and eggs situation and for every social networking platform to succeed it should over come this predicament. To overcome this it needs to have some extraneous help like what happened with Twitter and Facebook. Once the growth starts then it grows exponentially before hitting a plateau.
P.S:- This entire article was written in 30 minutes of time with out any back ground work and if some of the facts are mis represented, please do correct me.
The main factor that technology leverages on and becomes a mass phenomena is the sticky factor in the technology. If a new technology is a few years ahead of its time people have a barrier to accept it and the technology even if it is very useful will die a slow death.
In the recent months I want to compare three things viz.. The phenomena of Google Wave and that of Face book and Twitter. I do acknowledge that G-wave is still at its starting phase and it needs its time to peak. It is not a nice idea to compare all the three, but for the sake of understanding three different platforms at three different phases the three are the epitome.
The sticky factor in facebook is greater than that of twitter and that of G-wave. The major contributing factor for it is the number of your peers on both the networks and the ease of use.
The phenomena of micro blogging and twitter is sweeping the world and celebrities are latching on to it to post their "STATUS" on the move, the coming of celebrities has put the twitter phenomena on to the growth path and more over the multi usage of Twitter for small business and for marketing has increased its viability.
The Facebook brigade took India by storm. Till then all the youngsters were happy with Orkut and its scraps and communities. Facebook just swept Orkut out of the numero uno position in India and occupied it with in 6 months time.Huh! Thats pretty fast.
The growth in the Facebook is more linked with the amazing array of games it has, like Mafia wars and farm ville. These games were an integral part in the growth of Facebook phenomena in India, where people formed a community to have an Indian flag for farm ville to designate their nationality.
The Google wave is an extremely useful tool, and it will bring the new wave of revolution in web 2.0 in the way work is done and also in the way that people are going to interact. But it is still at its initial stage overcoming the hiccups to stand on its own feet. But it has the backing of Google and it will grow.
The peaking of a social networking tool starts when people join it in numbers and people only join when they see a certain amount of numbers. This in itself is a chicken and eggs situation and for every social networking platform to succeed it should over come this predicament. To overcome this it needs to have some extraneous help like what happened with Twitter and Facebook. Once the growth starts then it grows exponentially before hitting a plateau.
P.S:- This entire article was written in 30 minutes of time with out any back ground work and if some of the facts are mis represented, please do correct me.
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