Social networking for business

In this Forbes article is an explanation of the future of corporations in our economy.  It's social networking and its spinoffs.  Out is the old hierarchical corporate model and in is the open, flat structure in which information is hared and spread around to many different people within the company.  Ultimately this new model will lead to a revived  economy in which the consumer drives the corporation to satisfy his wants and needs as opposed to settling for the value created for him by the corporation.  This is all explained here.