It sure is a good illustration of what a Tipping Point is.

Josh has recently added his own review of that book.

Cheers

Paul

Thanks for relating your alternate view of the characters in the 3 minute drama unfolding on camera (i.e. that the first guy is the Innovator and the 2nd guy is the true Leader).

This made me think that the video is also a good model of the technology adoption curve (with the Chasm added by Geoffrey Moore).

When viewed in this light:

1) The long shirtless guy was the enthusiast (i.e he was dancing for himself, rather than for external gratification).

2) The first few followers were like the visionaries (i.e. early to latch onto trends, but doing so more because of a social benefit).

3) Then came the pragmatists (i.e. the first swarm of people who joined quickly after the chasm had been crossed - their motivation would seem to be described as “hey, this looks like fun - and there are enough there that I won’t look a fool”).

4) These were followed by the conservatives who could be more said to have the approach of “we’d better get involved now, or we’ll look like nerds”.

5) Finally, the skeptics remain seated, perhaps with the view “stop having fun, we came to hear the music!”.