Lately many parallel streams of development in Cloud Computing are making significant progress to bring about a new way of information processing impacting a large number of users, including enterprises and communities around the world. Gartner predicts that "Cloud Application Infrastructure Technology Needs Seven Years to Mature." Gartner said that technologically aggressive application development organizations [...]

Today ‘Social Networks’ are a way of life. We see it in every possible web based service or application that we use. Sometimes we even wonder if all these ’sociability’ actually serve their purpose in our respective information environments. So is ‘Social Networking’ only a business model for advertising revenue? There is more [...]

The dispositions of the new generation of customers, empowered and connected through technologies and information, who some like to call ‘the Prosumers’, is yet to be a full blown ‘phenomenon’ but the signs of a new era in social consumption, production and co-creation are loud and clear. With the ubiquity of information access, and the [...]