Goodbye E-Commerce, hello Social Commerce.

*This must sound great unless you were innocently fully-vested in e-commerce, in which case, congrats on your instant transition from with-it Favela Chic to tottering Gothic High-Tech.

*If you still have some actual commerce – like, maybe you sell raw materials, and you haven't yet been made "e" or "social?" I'd advise sitting this revolution out. You might wanna buy more barbed wire and contemplate shutting down the Internet. Take some careful notes on that. Hosni is workin' for you, brother.

http://socialcommercetoday.com/speed-summary-wired-feb-2011-cover-story-on-social-commerce/

*Okay, now I want somebody from "collaborative consumption" to explain to me how their version of socialized capitalism varies from "social commerce." Bonus points if you don't invoke Marx or any countercultural hippie solidarity.

*PS do not tell me that we are "wired to share" as this is WIRED UK and they are more wired than you.
Even though this Social Commerce article is not online as yet.

PPS. As usual, the music industry leads.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/20/ifpi-world-music-sales-2010

*Because it leads all forms of "commerce" down the crooked Internet path to the peer-to-peer abyss. "The Internet interprets profit as damage and routes around it."

*If you found this blogpost useful, why don't you tell all your Facebook friends and then pay me something? Hahahahah