Category Archives: Predictions

Social Media Network Theory

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This excellent slide show by Jyri Engestrom seeks to shed some theoretical light on the way social media networks function in terms of “social objects”. It’s pretty easy to make sense of even without the accompanying lecture, and if you’re interested in the way social networks currently function and [...]

Can Social Networks Improve Productivity?

Social networks are having an increasing impact upon behaviour at work. For well over year now, we’ve been seeing press reports about one corporation after another banning the use of social networking sites such as Facebook. Yet we’ve also seen many reports of management using information found on social networks to make decisions to hire [...]

Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

After almost a year of rumoured discussions, Microsoft has formally tabled an offer for Yahoo. [See the official statement from Microsoft here.] The bid, valued at $44.6 would see the two companies join forces as soon as Q3 2008. This tie up would be an impressive one, and a very logical one.
(We borrowed this great [...]

Potential Aquisition Targets for 2008

I wanted to share an interesting post from Centrenetworks.com, with 5 potential aquisition targets for 2008. Take some time to read the article over here. The five potential targets outlined in this post range from the mighty (AOL could be acquired by Yahoo) to the smaller (Clicky could be aquired by Webtrends.)
What is interesting [...]