BusinessWeek has a special report on the shift to cloud computing in the business sphere.  More comampanies are obtaining their software and computing capacity through web-based models. A Merrill Lynch report estimates that the annual global market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion by 2013 with about 12% of the software market moving into the cloud.

Read the full BusinessWeek article here: “How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World”

In other words, “Thous shalt make content king” – the final commandment in BusinessWeek’s 10 Commandments of Web Design.

BusinessWeek.com surveyed a range of top web design experts and compiled their insights into a list of 10 contemporary design commandments. Browsing through the list, it becomes apparent that any web master would do well by following three simple guidelines: keep it simple; focus on the content and get social.

In 2005, BusinessWeek ran a cover story predicting that the emerging phenomenon of blogging would have a significant impact businesses on communications. Three years on, the story “Blogs Will Change Your Business” remains one of the magazine’s most read articles online.

However, while blogs certainly have become an important medium, it is just one of the do-it yourself “communication multipliers” to have emerged on the internet since the article was published. Social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are have burst onto the scene as have a myriad of smaller social connectors and collaboration tools.

BusinessWeek thus felt compelled to update their story and review some of the Social Web developments they did not foresee in their original article. Beyond Blogs is well worth a read for an overview on how these emerging social media tools are having a very real impact on business processes today.