India 2010 (12)

Theme: Social nets and hard tech

The social networking sites is more than just a social phenomenon. Social computing, social networking, is also moving into the enterprise to facilitate coordination and interplay among workers. This will accelerate the already strong growth of social networks, it will drive the expansion of the physical networks that serve them, the software that controls them and the applications that run on them. The network equipment, computers, data storage facilities - the entire infrastructure - lowering he cost and environmental impact of the energy needed to keep these networks going will be a major concern. User devices will increasingly be designed to facilitate social networking. This issue of Connect-World will explore the impact of social networks upon the underlying hard and soft technologies; the theme will be Social nets and hard tech.