If this is unstoppable, then whatever the timescale the alarm bell has to ring and businesses (not just publishers — including universities) have to accept that change is inevitable and plan quite carefully to deal with it.
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The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.
"For adoption of new technologies in science, it has to be an order of magnitude more useful than current tools. We just don’t have the time to waste learning new tools that only marginally increase our productivity." Discussion: http://friendfeed.com/science-2-0/bceaea67/scientists-still-not-joining-social-networks
http://www.citeulike.org/user/username/order/pubdate,desc,last e.g. http://www.citeulike.org/user/AJCann/order/pubdate,desc,last To list your own publications in date order, flag them as your own papers in the edit dialogue, then: http://www.citeulike.org/profile/AJCann/publications/order/pubdate,desc,first