I find it interesting that these questions come from the webmaster for
the "facebook for sales managers" of ecademy ;) Surely just from your
own experience with that massive monolithic structure of centralized
control you must be in a great position to answer your own questions! :)

And whereas I'm not in any position, I will tell you what I was sent
two days ago, from Nokia -- I no longer own a nokia phone, but I did
and I still wish I had waited for the N95 instead of jumping on the
RIM bandwagon (talk about central control! And what goes wrong when it
fails!) -- anyway, in that little developers' newsletter they were
announcing the N95 and just let it slip that the dev-kit for that
phone will include "web2.0 extensions" to enable cellphone apps that
can use "ajax" like micro-services.

If you ask me, I'd say all your observations are because the Internet
as we knew it is largely dead, and /real/ communications have moved
into the portable pocket-computing space, a space that is very sadly
locked in to a hand-ful of vendors, but nonetheless, I think that is
where the next generation of P2P will happen. yeah, it may be in a
gmail/gtalk framework, but that's just the transport: the _components_
of the messages can and do come from /anywhere/

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