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SPREADING SPACE Reach out to the world and let the world reach out
Want advice, opinion, hitch up help, network, air your opinion on the quota debate? Perhaps you want people to know more about you, maybe you want the world to hear your guitar riffs? Logon to the Internet and plug into the fastest growing phenomenon where you can hang out, ladle out or consume advice: myspace.com, orkut.com, friendster.com, tagged.com and xanga.com are some of the sites.
A few clicks and cursors away, these pages are something like a blog married to personal pages and the diary that a world can read and listen to. What's more, you can even share your expertise. Does your dog have a runny nose? Where does one get that prized Pink Flyod CD? No problem, amigo. It's all there.
It is nothing like the Internet that you know where you blog, search, email, chat and are discovering Internet telephony. MySpace.com has racked in 73 million members in two years, Friendster has 27 million, Orkut has some 18 million and there are millions of others who are raving and ranting about the world in their own space.
A few weeks back Arjun Singh kicked the reservation ball and people have been running with it in all directions on the Internet. If you thought opinion is the monopoly of grey heads in newspaper and TV channels, you are wrong. Some of the opinions here are razor sharp and can slice both ways.
This virtual clubbing is evolving in ways as individualistic as people. Words, music, images, interaction. Suddenly the world is a tiny village. Connecting is the keyword.
Have a book no one wants to publish? A song no record company will touch? Fear not. Be read and heard right across the world through cyberspace.
Discover and be discovered is the tagline of one site and users are discovering new ways of using this resource.
Recently The Independent did a do-it-yourself success story of Richard Archer and it quoted him as saying: "The computer is now the greatest punk rock instrument, you can record your music, mix it, master it, do your art work, host your website, distribute your record, and with MySpace, get your music heard by thousands."
If MySpace.com is credited with creation of Arctic Monkey's rise, Friendster.com lets you create your own radio station and share it with your network.
This kind of targeted networking is creating a buzz in the industry with the big daddies trying scratching their pates to figure out how to get into the game now.
SERISH NANISETTI
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