Edition 2 Impact of Social Networks and User Generated Content - an India perspective -

Alok Mittal, Canaan Partners In 3-5 years timeframe, general purpose SNS will be mass reality in India. I would expect the first career social network to start gaining momentum in the next 12 months... www.canaan.com

Alok Mittal, Canaan Partners … from our perspective, both these are definitely investible spaces – perhaps with different time horizons. www.canaan.com

Amit Ranjan, COO, Slideshare.net Then there’s what I would call second generation - like Flickr, YouTube and our own website; and I think this trend is going to grow strong. 3D communities might be the next big thing to watch out for. www.slideshare.net

Prerna Gupta, CEO, Yaari.com Social networks have lowered barrier to communication, especially between single men & women and there's also an aspect of voyeurism to it, especially in tight-knit communities (like Facebook in college). www.yaari.com

Rajesh Lalwani – Founder, Blogworks I think starting out is an easy, fairly painless process but disengagement can have serious fallout and I think many will be forced to rethink… soon www.blogworks.in

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