What is MoSoSo?   It’s a cool, hip abbreviation for Mobile Social Software.  It’s not new, but it’s buzzworthy again because Dustin Moskovitzand (Facebook c0-founder) and Justin Rosenstein (Facebook and Google) announced they were leaving Facebook to go work on a project that’s expected to be some kind of social networking appplication for business.  According to Justin’s blog:

As our visions for how productivity software could work came into alignment, we thought about building it inside of Facebook. It was an attractive option in many ways, and neither of us was eager to exit a company that was in such an exciting phase of its development. But at some point it became clear that doing so wouldn’t be good for Facebook or for us. Facebook needs to continue its mission of making the world more open through social software, without distraction, and the new project requires a company built around it from the ground up, with the goals of efficiency and group collaboration embedded deeply into its DNA from day 1.

So we’ve decided to leave Facebook (in about a month) and start a new company, to build an extensible enterprise productivity suite, along with a high-level open-source software development toolkit, built for the Web from the ground up.

What can we expect from a business-focused social networking application? It’ll be available from both your smartphone and your desktop. It’ll have GPS and Google Maps and presence technology that offers the user choices and control. It’ll address the privacy and security concerns that have prevented many businesses from taking Facebook seriously. 

So why couldn’t Dustin and Justin stay at Facebook and build their productivity software inside? My guess is that it’s because their new product will be subscription-based —  and unlike Facebook or any other social networking app so far — it will make money.

This week’s tech buzzword is Jabber.  Jabber is another addition to the Cisco Software Family.  What? You thought Cisco was a hardware business? Think again.

When Cisco bought Jabber, the open source instant messaging app known for interoperability,  they didn’t just buy a corporate IM — they bought another key component for their vision of the future. A future where collaboration is built into the network rather than on top of it.

That’s right. While everyone’s been buzzing for months about Google and Microsoft and Yahoo,  Cisco’s been quietly rebuilding the bones of your network so you can get more value out of the infrastructure you already have in place.  Some people call the concept unified communications. Some people call it ubiquitous computing. It might just be simpler to call it Cisco Software.

Rumor has it that Cisco plans to include Jabber as part of its WebEx collaboration platform.  Makes sense. It fits in quite nicely with their telepresence technology too. The Jabber announcement comes less than a month after Cisco announced plans to buy PostPath, a Linux-based email and calendaring outfit, for $215 million.

Here’s my next prediction:  CISCO will buy Twitter.

Just as the world has woken up the potential (and pitfalls) of the blogosphere and tuned into the podosphere, online video has taken the world by storm. Streaming from an webcam near you, vlogging could revolutionize the broadcast industry just as blogging has shaken up publishing. What is a vlog? A video blog, naturally. Ze Frank and Ask a Ninja, for instance, are two of our favorites.

Welcome to the vlogosphere?