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People say that marketing for “cloud services” are really over the top right now – selling a lot more promise than can be delivered. If that’s true, social media is somewhere out in the stratosphere of hype – pushed into orbit by leaders like Twitter and Facebook – I’ve heard many people say if they were trying to avoid reading yet another article on the wonders of connecting to “communities” on the web.

The recent rumors that Twitter could complete a capitol raise of $250mm have set the “blogosphere” afire. Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research did some number crunching and came up with a value of $73.52 per active user for Twitter. This follows news that the social media darling turned down a half billion dollar acquisition by Facebook. And – it’s old news but – the Gartner Group says social networks shouldn’t be ignored by retailers. Surprised? Maybe you should take another look at social marketing in your business model…

In the fourth article of our series about SaaS and The Long Tail, we are exploring the tail that according to some sources – wags the SaaS dog. At the ultimate end of The Long Tail is the individual – the “me” we all embody. Strategies for SaaS that employ The Long Tail concept, all leverage the power of the Internet to satisfy the individual without addressing them directly. Is it magic? Smoke and mirrors?

It doesn’t take a lot to see what we’ve been writing about in the month and a half Haut Tec has been around. So, just because it is the time of year when everyone is putting together predictions for the new year and hanging them out to view, I’ll make a bold prediction for our future – more cloud computing, SaaS, Agile, RIA and the business of On-Demand services. We’ll find other subjects I’m sure, but these subjects are core of our work and in fact – the issues that lead on most lists of computing technology for the near term.