- Yahoo will remain an independent company make a big comeback
- Sun Microsystems will continue it’s downward spiral and will end up selling off a major component of their business
- Microsoft will make significantly more traction with their cloud services
- iPhone will gain significantly more marketshare and will become the dominant platform for mobile computing, rivaled primarily by Google’s Android platform which will also gain significant marketshare as better hardware hits the market
- Twitter will continue to flourish and will likely be acquired by Google
- Digg will be acquired by someone, perhaps Yahoo
- Kevin Rose will achieve his goal and go on a date with Jennifer Aniston
- Blogging will become popular again – but posts will be more frequent and in shorter bursts
- Cisco Systems will make a big play in the web 2.0 arena that will get them a lot of attention
- My most bold prediction: the return of the chat room!
DAILY: Predictions for 2009
January 3rd, 2009 by mike downey Leave a reply »
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I agree with the blogging thing although depending on how its achieved, not sure how good that is for readers. My rss reader is now full of unread items from blogs which now fire off many short, poorly considered posts each day that very quickly became noise to me. That may be the extreme though and I’d definitely like to see more regular posts from many (self included) providing they’re on topic and new thoughts rather than link bait and references to other posts.
Very interesting predictions! Specially about chat rooms!
@DannyT that’s a really good point. My RSS reader is in the same condition. Too many short, uninteresting posts. I guess that’s why Twitter works. There must be a better way to do it than just skimming through hundreds of feeds. There’s good stuff in there that I want to read but finding it is a huge pain. Need better filtering of RSS feeds. Hmm…
(Entrepreneur hat goes on…)
I was thinking about this too and have decided I want to have a date filter so my reader only shows posts from the past 7 days. This way, when I do start Reading I only spend time on up to date things, anything I miss that I should read I’ll rely on reposts and twitted for.
Interesting prediction!
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