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Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise: Daily reading 11/08/2007
Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise
Thursday, November 08, 2007
  Daily reading 11/08/2007

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Social media will develop the “killer app”: an aggregate buying tool for groups.
    I think that social media will become a VERY useful tool when social networks are used to benefit the individual user along with the group (as in business networking, etc.). I see the killer app as an aggregate commerce engine where you can gather together 10 of your friends looking to buy a flat-screen TV and buy them all in bulk at a discounted price, shipped to each separate location. It’s Costco embedded in your social network, and it puts the “social graph” to a practical purpose. The logistics of this may be difficult, but I think it will be inevitable.
       
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