Technology trends has shown that it gets created by corporations for public use and moves back to business environment. Heavy use of email started with Yahoo and Hotmail and now it’s essential business tool. Instant messaging popularized by AOL, MS Messenger and ICQ ended up in corporate world and now instant messaging is heavily used in bigger corporate setup.
Social Networking is at present in public domain and site like Face book and MySpace is fulfilling that need. It will eventually end as tool in corporate setting. The newer trend, social networking platform for corporate INTRANET is catching up. In next couple of year most of the bigger corporation will have social platform included in their Intranet, promoting better corporation between teams scattered over geographical distances.
The question is what is next wave after Social Networking? As mobile computing gets cheaper, most the innovations will shift to mobile platform and dream of 24/7 connectivity across continent will not be a dream anymore.