bleeding edge tech

You see, we love messing around with new technologies, if its not part of our job, its something we just love to play with - its our version of toys - sure we can't afford that Porsche but we can load a copy of the latest twitter clone and futz around with it. the key is that while we go jump on things and play with them for a while, that doesn't mean that they are great things, or useful at all. Sometimes its just novelty, this is the cool new thing that everyone is playing with. The true key is staying power, if you can consistently use something over a period of say, a month, and are still using it and finding it useful, then maybe its has "legs". Of course, it could also mean that its fulfilling a need but not perfectly (see 80% rule) so the time is ripe for competitors to swoop in a take over. Of course you have to be better and more perfect, otherwise the leader will win - until something better comes along. What I've found lately is that a lot of this bleeding edge Web 2.0+ stuff is really little tiny cool features that other products SHOULD have. Like twitter should be in instant messenger. Or in Windows Vista.