This post is the third segment in my series on an architecture for the social web. Previously: How social networks can replace email, which is a non-technical approach to the issues, and my follow-up describing how to build a social web architecture using available technology today. So what about direct
My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.” In it, I named some properties that would need to be held by any social networking system that would
Enterprise
The analysis firm Gartner just released five key predictions for social software: 1. By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. 2. By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but