00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agenciSocial networks are revolutionizing the dot com era. Dot com companies connected the world from an infrastructure perspective but the human interaction due to a lack of web based applications resulted in a lull in productivity gains post dot com. Today, companies like CISCO and IBM along with Oracle and HP are developing and launching web 2.0 level solutions that provide the human experience leveraging the dot com investment of 10+ years ago. The key to this phase is clearly the transformation and blending of voice and data. Clearly this is where the efforts of CISCO and their recently announced Telepresence experience is the right direction. Is it all here now? Of course not. But the concept and the building blocks are here and thus companies, families and small business are all going to benefit over the next 2-3 years. It's the right investment at the right time.

Social networking has been around for ever. The ability of the internet as a medium in which to transform face-to-face socializing to instant communications blending both voice and data in realtime over common appliances like a TV, Phone or even your watch has far reaching benefits. The United States is starting at $4.00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agenci

and HP are developing and launching web 2.0 level solutions that provide the human experience leveraging the dot com investment of 10+ years ago. The key to this phase is clearly the transformation and blending of voice and data. Clearly this is where the efforts of CISCO and their recently announced Telepresence experience is the right direction. Is it all here now? Of course not. But the concept and the building blocks are here and thus companies, families and small business are all going to benefit over the next 2-3 years. It's the right investment at the right time.

Social networking has been around for ever. The ability of the internet as a medium in which to transform face-to-face socializing to instant communications blending both voice and data in realtime over common appliances like a TV, Phone or even your watch has far reaching benefits. The United States is starting at $4.00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agenci

Telepresence experience is the right direction. Is it all here now? Of course not. But the concept and the building blocks are here and thus companies, families and small business are all going to benefit over the next 2-3 years. It's the right investment at the right time.

Social networking has been around for ever. The ability of the internet as a medium in which to transform face-to-face socializing to instant communications blending both voice and data in realtime over common appliances like a TV, Phone or even your watch has far reaching benefits. The United States is starting at $4.00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agenci

as been around for ever. The ability of the internet as a medium in which to transform face-to-face socializing to instant communications blending both voice and data in realtime over common appliances like a TV, Phone or even your watch has far reaching benefits. The United States is starting at $4.00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agenci00/gallon gas prices in 2007. In northern California we are almost there today! If companies are going to grow they will need to seriously look at their cost of doing business and one key area in this new Global Market is the cost of travel and displacement. From the airlines to the rental car agencies and the hotel's raising their daily rates to Dot Com levels this is a huge push for Social Networks.

Imagine being able to have that meeting to close the big deal and not have anyone remove themselves from their primary locations. Sound crazy? It's not, and we can do it today. CISCO recently launched their Telepresence brand and the building blocks from a technology perspective are here and now. Today, you can hold a meeting with voice/data over the internet. The performance of the internet is improving every day with new technology and applications taking advantage of Web 2.0 and thus providing more of a human experience which in itself will transform small to large business environments and even family events.

Taking this one step further you can envision all the WiFi Spots being one large inter connected link of multiple laptops all generating the capability to converge with voice and data. The virtual office will never be the same. The rise in productivity will be the gift and the curse and people tend to remained tethered to their data even when the traditional hours of the work day have passed. This is an area that will reduce productivity if we don't manage our