Movement to Value
So what are we looking for in the next phase of online social and business networking? In general we are seeking to get a real human experience and to be very selective with whom we share that experience.
In order for that to happen we need quality Profiles, not just showing words, but also profiling rich material such as video and photo's. Furthermore we want tools to directly interact by voice and (online) personal presence if possible (web-conference and sharing).
Up to now these tools where very immature, they where technical by nature and we needed to do all sorts of things in order to install or use them on our computer. Most of the new technologies seemed to have to go through a 'trough of disillusionment' but are now in a maturing phase.
Gartner published this matrix which roughly shows you some technologies and their maturing stages.