Now, this is interesting.

Next week Cisco plans to announce one of its most unusual deals: it is buying the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social networking site.

It is a curious pairing.

... Tribe.net ... has been trampled by newer social sites ...

But along with the recent purchase of a social network design firm, Five Across, the deal will give Cisco the technology to help large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online. And that ambition highlights a significant shift in the way companies and entrepreneurs are thinking about social networks.

This is precisely the news I needed.

There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day /
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day /
And tomorrow is just a dream away

Social Networking’s Next Phase