Blogger Dinner
Yesterday evening was great. My fellow colleague from IIT (running a software company called Tekriti) invited me to a blogger dinner. Thanks to Gaurav for the same. I enjoyed the presence of Marc Canter, its always good to be in the company of great people and you tend learn a lot even being a part of their surroundings.
Discussions were great, varying from Micro-content to blogging, fight of the Big Three (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft), E-bay Skype deal etc. Moreover, the ambience and the food at Pind Baluchi, Gurgaon was simply superb.
Marc discussed a lot about the importance of micro-content - for instance reviews, ratings, events, venues - the importance of structured blogging. I personally believe that this is going to be the next big thing that's gonna happen to the WWW. But sometimes seeing RSS, I do also ponder, is it just about getting updates (even this is a big social change in behaviour) or we gonna see a lot more in future (Web 3.0 :-))?
There was also a discussion about various social networks - the big korean cyworld, myspace etc. Social networks are meant to be closely related to the way humans define their life network but how much of this can occur in an online world! Alok (from jobsahead) mentioned perhaps the biggest two social events one does online is either jobs or dating, so how big as an influence are the other online social networks?
Overall the meet went on pretty well. Kudos to the Tekriti team for organising it. Looking forward to more such events.
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2 Comments:
I agree with you that RSS and micro content are going to change the world.
But as you said => jobs and dating are the only thing one does online. I disagree!
Its a mixture of fun + work + learning. Its about meeting like minded people. its about sharing content in all forms => pics, music and video in everyway => laptop or mobile.
just to give u an e.g flickr and orkut have their own charm. orkut has its charm initially but then it dies. Where flickr - its addictive if you reallt love pics => its heroin ;-)
There are serious health concerns at Pind Balunchi as it is completely SMOKING 'dhaba' as the managment likes to call. Although thier staff is generally polite, some of their captains especially Surjit Nanda is really rude. I would advise you against going there if you cannot tolerate smoke.
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