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Gartner's social software predictions for 2010: a few misses...

So, Gart­ner is out “reveal­ing” its “five social soft­ware pre­dic­tions for 2010 and beyond“. I’ve not been able to resist com­ment­ing them… By 2014, social net­work­ing ser­vices will replace e-mail as the pri­mary vehi­cle for inter­per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tions for 20 per­cent of busi­ness users. Greater avail­abil­ity of social net­work­ing ser­vices both inside and out­side the fire­wall, cou­pled with chang­ing demo­graph­ics and work styles …

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Behavioral Economics in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008

I just noted that “Behav­ioral Eco­nom­ics” have been inte­grated in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies. Not sur­pris­ing as I wrote before. Here is the famous graph: It’s actu­ally quite amus­ing how McK­in­sey con­cen­trates on how to build com­pet­i­tive advan­tage and Gart­ner on years to main­stream. Of course, it’s mar­ket­ing BS in one case and so-called analy­sis in the other, …

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