Power of Social Networks

Over the past few years I have conducted research in areas pertaining to social networks and Web2.0 technologies. As a matter of fact, I did a stunt in trying to predict events based on blogs that led to the events in the worldcup qualifying game of Egypt and Algeria in 2010. I never arrived to anything conclusive from that study, due to the lack of enough data. However, I never imagined that the power of social networks would reach the levels of the popular uprising in Egypt. The magnitude of the events that happened were surprising to most, including those working in these technologies. Maybe I need to revisit the research in predicting events based on activities in Web2.0 technologies.