The Social Storm
Remember when we used to think of the web as an interesting place to read what a company wanted to tell us? Now we can watch movies, get real time feeds from many sources simultaneously, buy practically everything, manage companies, and entertain ourselves for hours (or days or weeks) on end.
Social has that same feel, doesn’t it? Where the user base has entered the late majority, where there is a critical mass of interesting content, and where the apps growing up in the fertile soil of social foundations (Facebook, Twitter, OpenSocial, etc) are finally getting interesting.
To me, its clear we’ll look back on these last 2 years of the social boom as just the beginning, just as browsing brochure-ware sites was in the mid-late 90′s. The ideas coming out of retail, CPG, manufacturing, financial, and travel make it obvious there will be an explosion of new ways for people to interact with people or companies. Wish I could share what I hear but an NDA is still an NDA.
