Recent trend in Software Industry involving Social Media

Social Media has recently changed the way people interact with Internet. As human being extremely enjoyed social importance this is something that was missing from the internet world. There must be many attempts to solve this but until Friendster it was almost unknown to the general mass. Myspace changed the way how people stored their content on the Internet and also communicated with friends. But until Facebook and Twitter probably the whole concept of social media was blurry to us. These are the sites who clearly defined how the whole social media should look like.

Recently Pinterest has once again revolutionized the people share pictures over the net, By making its interface 100% visual i.e.  screen full of pictures it has seen a tremendous growth for the last 6 months. Currently it is a site which is growing more than any other website in the world. Pinterest effectively found a gap between Twitter and Facebook tweets, retweets, shares and likes. Since a picture is more attractive than 100 words, Pinterest concentrated on the fact of sharing pictures and resharing pictures and pinning them on ones personal pinboard. It has now established itself as the Twitter of pictures.

Pinterest theme has also created a buzz over how the presentation layer should look and function. Drupal, Zoomla, Wordpress and many other free Content Management Systems (CMS) has started to develop Pinterest themes so that it can be integrated to websites. I guess these guys felt the demand of the themes that might be coming. Recent travel websites like Wanderfly.com redesigned their to adapt the Pinterest like look and feel. Many other sites are following the same pattern of Pinterest. Trippy, Gtrot, Gogobot all are following the same footsteps. This is clear that though we like review of experts, but word of mouth and comments from known people is etxremely important.

With all of these going on the main thing that goes in my mind is how affective are all of these to solve our specific requirements on the internet. With such a load of information punped by a large audience all over the world, how effective it will be when we simply search for a weekend trip from Kolkata. Will pinterest or Facebook give me any valuable information, or will it just give me random things related to Travel. Do we till need to goto Google.com and search 100's of sites and blogs to get a simple answer as to what to do over the weekend? Probably it would have been much easier to ask a learned person and get an answer quickly rather than spending hours over the internet.