How many more new micro-blogging, networking or video-sharing sites can we use?

Posted by Samir

September 18, 2008

Most of us hardly have time even to respond to voice mail and e-mails, let alone check Facebook accounts, Twitter updates and Flickr friends. Even if we have the time to do so, do we really need another website that will help us share and connect and network? The question is How many more micro-blogging, social networking or video-sharing websites can we use?

This problem is just under the surface, as a new report describes, at the Web 2.0 Expo taking place in the third week of September 2008 in New York. Until a few years ago, it was not difficult for start-ups that offer Web services to catch attention of early adopters — specifically, the tech geeks - the first to try out new technologies. The challenge then was attracting ‘mainstream users’. But now, as the trend indicates, even the ‘early adopters’ are getting stretched.

“The biggest chasm is no longer really between early adopters and mainstream users. It is more about finding as well as retaining the early adopters to start with,” stated the director of business development at AdaptiveBlue, Fraser Kelton, who talked about the peculiar problem at a conference presentation termed ‘The Real, Long-lasting (& Negative) Impact of Web 2.0 on Technology Adoption.’

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