NYT on Social Networking’s Next Phase
Tim Finin, 1:00pm 3 March 2007Today’s NYT has an article, Social Networking’s Next Phase, that discusses how companies, big and small, are developing or acquiring social networking systems. The article leads with Cisco’s acquiring Tribe.net.
“Next week Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley heavyweight, plans to announce one of its most unusual deals: it is buying the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social networking site, according to people close to the companies’ discussions. … But along with the recent purchase of a social network design firm, Five Across, the deal will give Cisco the technology to help large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online. And that ambition highlights a significant shift in the way companies and entrepreneurs are thinking about social networks.”
The article also discusses Ning, a meta social networking service where users can create custom social networking communities. as well as organizations that are setting up niche social Web sites.
Eventually we will hit a fundamental theoretical limit; there will not be enough people to go around.
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