My Second Wind

We have seen a lot of disruptive technologies that have come to stay over the last decade in the World Wide Web. First there were web mails, then chat engines, Messengers, Search Engines, Blogs, and Social Networks. There were very many products in each of these spaces when the technology was new. Only a few remain today. Given that all new products launches will be subjected to the laws of the jungle and only the fittest survive, my question is... "Is there space for some more Social Networking Sites?" given that FB, Google and Twitter are already Rocking!! I had written an article on Social Networks and Social CRM sometime back and you might want to check it out if you are interested in this area. http://www.infosys.com/CRM/idea-center/Documents/social-CRM-strategy.pdf Another interesting question, can a Web-Based Email launch (With some breathtaking features) find new takers at this point of time given that Email as a technology might be on its decline s...

I recently came across a blog from the renowned Cartoonist and Socio-Business commentator, Scot Adams, on what is the quality of work when it gets done for a pay check v/s when it gets done for a purpose . On reading it got the feeling that most of the Organizations today are busy solving problems of growth and profitability.   Also as a byproduct of their single minded focus on growth and profitability, they also get busy in solving problems of costs, dis-satisfaction, how to get buy-ins, communications, performance and attrition. Significant time and energies are spent in the design of pay checks, complex strategies around cost savings are laid out and communicated. Meanwhile, as a result of this, the day to day actions and work that people do no longer are in sync with solving the problems of “Purpose”, but are rather solving the problems of “profitability”, “growth”, “cost savings”, the does not necessarily correlate with the “Purpose” of the organization and does not con...

London has it, Stockholm has it, so does Milan and Singapore. Mumbai and Bangalore needs it. If you are done guessing, I am talking about the Road Congestion Taxes that is in place in these cities for entering Prime Areas with very high traffic density. While Supply in real world is related Infrastructure that is finite, the Supply in the Virtual World for Digital Traffic at the moment appears unlimited. So instead of viewing Infrastructure as the supply, we should look at time as the supply and not necessarily infrastructure. It costs one “Time” both when you get stuck in a road in traffic congestion and when you get stuck in the Web in a Data Congestion. The other day when I was doing a Search on “Cloud Computing” (Just to prove the Point of my Blog), Google returned a cool 36 Million results for the string “Cloud Computing” – The results came from the following categories: ·          2.44 Million Blogs, ·    ...