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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Oracle has Beehive , Microsoft has added social capabilities to SharePoint , SocialText is in the enterprise, as is IBM’s Lotus Connections , but no category killer has emerged.

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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

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With social media, you would have to have lived in a cave on an island in the Pacific to not know how ubiquitous it is. Think of Wal Mart or Astroturfing. 2) There will be a continued increase in the value of communities but you will also see more splintering of those communities into niches.