Web Prediction 2008
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Predictions on the web apps & trends that will make it big in 2008.

1) Semantic Apps will become popular in 2008, due to their ability to get better content results and make better data connections. Think search engines like Hakia and Powerset, wikipedia-like efforts like Twine and Freebase, and apps that use semantic technologies under the hood.

2) Web Services platforms will be a fierce battleground in '08, with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and others competing to provide 'Web OS' and online storage to consumers. Unfortunately this may spell the end of a number of startups in this space.

3) Mobile web usage will be a big story in 2008. It's already big in many parts of the world; and Westerners are about to get hooked. With new mobile devices that makes web surfing less painful, people will be more and more connected away from their computers.

4) A handful of big companies will let you start logging in with an OpenID associated with your account, but most people (mainstream users) still won't use it - that's a couple of years off.

5) Microsoft will become more aggresive and buy many popular companies at once (remember Ballmer's quote).

6) Facebook will start to feel pressure from two trends that will emerge on the web: distributed social networks and distributed commerce systems. For distributed commerce systems, look to see a first proof of concept from the VRM project. Chris Messina's diso project with Wordpress will be a great proof of concept for distributed social neworks.

7) Google OpenSocial will be lauch somewhere in 2008.

8) Bill G will retire and I will step up - I dream...

9) I'll be broke...(Human pets) not real life la..

...to be continued

Unknown "GraphicFuse" Adventurous - 16 years, 9 months ago