In our blog posts so far, we have talked a lot about how Bizooki’s goal is to help workers in cubicles around the world, as well as the ones sitting at home waiting for the right call, connect with each other in unique ways; comfortable means of communication which allow our users to facilitate the virtual teams/opportunities they had in mind when they signed up with us in the first place.

But what about the people who do actually "build stuff" for a living: the construction workers and foremen of the world? Actually, Bizooki’s mission is equally geared towards our more blue-collar, down-to-earth work force.

Any ways in which Bizooki can become more of a hard day’s night, replace-the-dude-who-up-and-quit, team-building home and socializing tool for members of our most grassroots professions, the better. As we’ve said before , Bizooki aims to be the virtual team-building and networking (on both local AND global levels) what Facebook has become to social/school networking .

In a continually slumping economy, an increasing number of our young citizens, whether they have a high school (or even college) degree or not, choose to make their livings through landscaping, roofing, gardening, demolition, painting, insulation, installation, plumbing, and other vocational ventures that pocket them money at the end of the day with a renewable base of clientele.

And why not? They’re working for themselves, in part because the economy and job market have let them down. America is full of young men and women starting their own such companies and working with and within their network of friends, downing a few beers and swapping a few jokes after 12+ hour days.

Bizooki, at the end of the day, is a networking site for independent contractors. Of all kinds. If we want to be successful at all, this is our base, and we hope you feel comfortable coming here, constructing and renovating new and existing relationships.

Just like the eternal patterns found in nature , so too the nature of the business world waxes and wanes like sun spot cycles or the seasonal leveling of the Nile.

Bear and bull markets have see-sawed on Wall Street and in the dot-com world for ages, but it seems to have been quite some time since we have seen anything but a bull trend with Web sites. The progressive integration of human consumer communication has produced an arms race for the herd that isn’t likely to stop anytime soon!

As far as the heavyweights go, Microsoft has been licking its chops recently following a lengthy and strained courtship of Yahoo! While the two conglomerates are still a ways apart in price negotiations (Yahoo! wants about $5 more per share), it seems Steve Ballmer & co. are preparing for a potential hostile takeover and are even unveiling their own list of board members . E-mail innovator Xobni, on the other hand, cut off Microsoft’s seduction recently by turning down a $20 million pick-up line.

Yahoo! itself has only recently settled back down to normal after a $100 million merger with sports niche standard Rivals.com (a poor man’s ESPN). Only recently before that, Fox bought out Rivals’ chief competitor, Scout.com for $60 million. Google buys YouTube for a billion …News Inc. gobbles up MySpace for half a billion …the list goes on and obnoxiously on. As the corporate food chain consolidates each other, and Google and Microsoft make their reservations at the OK Corral, YOU, the consumer, are left wondering, “What’s next?”

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