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?”

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and for every good idea with idealistic foundations that fills some black hole in our ever-expanding Internet cosmos, there seems to be a salivating star just waiting to put the new planet under its own orbit.

And while Facebook has somehow managed to prove unyielding (so far) in this cosmic effect of corporate consumption, the Rupert Murdoch’s and Sergey Brin’s will soon shift their penetrating gazes from the social networking platforms to the business networking tools. They already have.

When Google bought out JotSpot recently, it sent a message about the next wave of media consumption. With the economy on a steady decline and conventional job searches bearing fruit at an all-time low, the need for college graduates and disenfranchised job market veterans to seek alternate means of paying the bills is at an all-time high.

What really separates Bizooki from the rest of its long list of worthy competitors is the concept of team-building and establishing new relationships with virtual teammates across the globe. While many of the business networking sites out there were designed with improving communication and database organization in mind for large companies, Bizooki is a product of grassroots thinking by eccentric college students who wish to create a new realm of thriving business for their peers.

Where some may see a vacuum, constantly preyed upon by a pool of sharks, Bizooki sees a field of opportunity and strives to keep the predators at bay for itself and its constituents, with our own little sanctuary of real estate untainted by the mergers and blood money.

Bizooki sees a black hole in the cosmos that it would like to fill permanently and, at least in our vision, we don’t plan on running away anytime soon.