The proceedings in the Web 2.0 world are quite comparable to that of the indian film industry. Ever since its inception the indian film industry has been making films revolving around “love”. The films differed in just the way they portrayed love. And its almost a rule in indian film industry that every film that has an actor and actress, must have them unite in love. And the western films are no exceptions, but the love theme is more over-reused in indian film industry. Even this over-reuse didn’t bore a larger section of the people as the directors were atleast innovative in adding their own twist to the same old love story. But as time wentby, the indian audience became experts, that they could predict the entire story within just 10 minutes of watching the film.
Now coming to the web 2.0 startups, it’s very much analogous to the indian films. Their services revolved around internet – the new found love. In the beginning, I had signed in for a yahoo email cum chat account and then a few groups. That was enough for meeting most of my needs and sure most of anyone’s needs. I do appreciate services like blogs and forums that did help a lot of people. And then the advent of social networking sites, which were just a mixture of all of the above. But beyond that I see the difference between indian films and web2.0 services getting diminished. Making a web 2.0 startup is becoming as simple as making a love story. I do acknowledge that a lot of combinations of email,chat,groups and forums are yet to be tried out, but making web the central theme(like love) doesn’t make it quite attractive to the budding computer science students and is limiting the scope of computer science industry. There are a lot of developments still pending in key fields like artificial intelligence, robotics and communication etc.,.
Let’s make computer science more interesting!
