One of the “weak­nesses” that I have (other than a sucker for FREE food) would prob­a­bly be the fact that I like to learn a lot of new things. How can this be a weak­ness? Well, it’s kind of like play­ing sports. You would like to get into each sport you see on TV or the ones that your peers love to play. By doing so, you get to become a great ath­lete. How­ever, a down­side to that would be you not being able to become a great player of a par­tic­u­lar sport. Now, this might not be true for every­thing and every­one but col­lec­tively, it is.

Lately, this weak­ness have been get­ting me in the world of tech­nol­ogy, more specif­i­cally web-technology. With all of this “Web 2.0″ boom going around in the air, it just makes you won­der when this “upgrade” will be set. Appli­ca­tions left-and-right are com­ing at you at ludi­crous speed. Try­ing to keep up with every sin­gle one of them is a chore, but also excit­ing, edu­ca­tional and inspiring.

With the boom comes com­pe­ti­tion. The will to suc­ceed and ide­ol­ogy “to be bet­ter, smarter and more effi­cient than the next guy” are what fuels these new breeds of think-tanks and Web 2.0 innovators.

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