(Social) and (Distributed) Networking

I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of months thinking about software as a service and service oriented architecture, especially how they relate to distributed computing.

Today my colleague Kim sent me a link to Threeminds blog on Digital Marketing. In this post, 3minds makes an interesting point that I hadn't considered very much: distributed collaborative development (SourceLabs, SWiK, Sourceforge, et. al.) enable "extreme acceleration" in collaborative development by distributing the development, accomplishing more work by developing in parallel. Distributed computing offers extreme acceleration in the work that can be done by that software, accomplishing more work by computing in parallel.

The networks (social and computing) are becoming more powerful. The tools available on both sides are becoming more sophisticated every day.