- 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!
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DAILY: Predictions for 2009
January 3rd, 2009Learn about branding in this short visual presentation
January 2nd, 2009I found this last night on slideshare and thought I’d share it. I haven’t done a great deal of thinking about branding in the past so this short presentation really opened my eyes. It’s kind of fun to think about.
DAILY: 2008 in Review
January 1st, 2009Ok – this will be the year that I do a daily post! I say that every year but I’m not giving up yet. To make it easier on myself I’m going to attempt to do a daily post of something short and sweet (and hopefully interesting) like my friend Brian. I’m going to prefix each post with “DAILY:” so they can be differentiated from my regular, more in-depth posts.
To kick things off, I thought I’d list a few of my favorite things from 2008:
- I got engaged to the love of my life, Liana
- had an amazing vacation in Australia at one of the most beautiful resorts in the world.
- toured through Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway for the first time with my friends Greg, Jason, and Stef.
- iPhone 3G
- helped Barack Obama get elected by volunteering in Nevada with Brian and Liana!
- got my dream car
- went to New York and Europe with Liana. Experienced Oktoberfest for the second time.
- moved to Pacific Heights and discovered how awesome living in San Francisco can really be!
- really enjoyed The Dark Knight, Man on Wire, Iron Man, and Wall-E.
- finally got dragged into reading the Harry Potter series and got hooked
- read one of the best, most effective books on understanding politics ever written: What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues
- Got the amazing new Nikon D700
dSLR. Now I have to start spending more time with it!
What were your 2008 favs?
Learn about embedding Flash content with SWFObject 2.0 from Lee Brimelow
July 31st, 2008Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a great tutorial on using SWFObject 2.0 for embedding SWFs in your HTML content over at gotoandlearn.com.
PCWorld article on Flash gaining traction in the Enterprise
July 31st, 2008PCWorld reports Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise.
While most people know Flash as primarily a multimedia delivery and development technology for Web sites, it is catching on as a front-end user-interface (UI) technology for business applications, an Adobe manager [AIR Group Product Marketing Manager, Adrian Ludwig] said Wednesday.
The article goes on to discuss Flash’s growing use behind the corporate firewall and the impact that Flex has had in gaining interest from traditional application developers.
Adobe’s Flash has been making progress against legacy desktop applications — such as those built in C++ — although that progress hasn’t been widely publicized…
“One of the problems with Flash is people only think of it as being used to do public Web sites,” he said in an interview in New York Wednesday. “It’s a misconception. A significant percentage of [Flash] applications people are making now are enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall.”
He cited as an example an application that Siemens and development partner Thrasys created for Siemen’s health information system. The companies created a front-end, Web-based interface using Flash and Flex to unite several back-end applications and streamline how employees use information from different systems.
