Social networking sites to Knowledge networking sites

Social networking sites have gained popularity among people by integrating it in their daily life to develop their networks beyond geographical boundaries. Though major part of the activities in these sites is to develop contacts and continue a long term friendship, only a few utilise it for sharing knowledge. There is a need for sites that are specifically reserved for certain activities and dating sites, music, photo and video sharing sites are some of the examples.

The social networking sites are undergoing a paradigm change from "its not who you know" to "its what you know". People like to connect to a knowledgable person to spend their time usefully by exchanging their knowledge looking for a mutual learning environment. Now a person in the networking sites is weighed on the intensive knowledge he/she carries. They gets an image makeover turning out to be a knowledgable person with enormous contacts. (Example bloggers like kirubashankar -
www.kiruba.com and Ajay Jain - www.techgazing.com are perceived as knowledgable people in the IT technology part). Though many networking sites are integrating new features for disseminating knowledge, the users still perceive it as a platform for making friends. So, new websites are being launched for exchanging knowledge for niche audiences like IT professionals - techtribes.com, businessmen - siliconindia.com, ryze.com, linkedIn.com.

Sites like authorstream and slideshare enhance sharing of powerpoint presentation among net users. The presentations uploaded can be an academic topic, a marketing campaign a business pitch or handling investment plans. Microsoft estimated that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations are created everyday. Figures also show that the number of PowerPoint presentation users are about 500 million. Though internet is the best mode to send these presentations to meet instant communication needs across geographies, the heavy size of PowerPoint, speed of internet and the sense of losing control over the presentation are major hindrances to meet the objective.

Doesn't like the way VKK ended

While there was confusions in continuing the afternoon session of our office (as there was a blast of an air-conditioner in the 2nd floor), we thought of spending some time in the theatre near to our office. We went to 'Vennila kabadi kuzhu' and I say our additional spending of Rs20 over each of the ticket was proved worth. I could point out some lack of depth in screenplay, but not worse that most as it is an attempt by a debutant director. The film fraternities compared it with Chennai 600028 but its not detrimental for VKK to be on par with it. Both the films had love, joy, friendship, defeat, hurdles, family emotions etc. but still the freshness and depth of the characters kept VKK an inch behind in overtaking Chennai -28. Of course, Chennai -28 had a handful of experienced members who knows the pulse of chennaities.

And i didn't like the way VKK ended...

And in the view of the publicist in myself - The VKK crew should have invited Chennai 600028 team for the launch of its audio function.