"Steve, what's the next hot online community?" It seems as though everybody
is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. Nobody,
even in a difficult economic climate, wants to be viewed as a latecomer.
Perhaps as a defense mechanism to avoid being wrong myself, I now give a
boilerplate answer that I believe can last. In short, the next big community is
not a single destination. Rather, it is going to be everywhere. To paraphrase
Forrester analyst Charlene Li, social networking is becoming "like air."
credenceone on 05 Apr 17The clouds have been building for some time now, and it is difficult to ignore them at this point. Cloud computing seems to be the direction many companies are moving. To cloud or not to cloud is the question that many organizations are currently facing. While on-premises data center technology isn't necessarily on the brink of extinction, cloud computing is a relatively new option with many benefits, including scalability, agility and cost efficiency.
