Predictions Roundup …
The new year has brought with it a mass of predictions, wild (and sometimes educated) guesses and all sorts of outlooks, some worthy reads:
Wired has some interesting prophecies for 2007 …
Robert Cringely looks at his past 2006 predictions and offers new ones for 2007:
1) Apple releases iTV, a bunch of flat-panel MacTV’s that contain Mac Minis, etc. This is broken record and exactly what I predicted last year, but I still mean it.
4) No one DRM technology emerges as the winner and the RIAA begins to back off as it loses a few legal cases. Still, no Internet-only song wins a Grammy or is even recognized as existing.
10) The year the net crashed (in the USA). Video overwhelms the net and we all learn that the broadband ISPs have been selling us something they can’t really deliver.
Rajesh Jain starts a series on tech trends from 2006 and beyond …
Enrique Ortiz looks beyond Web 2.0 … focusing on mobility issues, where
search, participation, collaboration and user-generated content will play an important role
Add this to the extensive list of Mobile and Wireless Trends for 2007 compiled by Rudy de Waele, like e.g.
Flat fees will become more affordable bit by bit.
Thus, more user-generated content will become available to the phone; opening the way for mobile users to start using new web/mobile 2.0 services on their phones, such as podcasting, RSS feeds, more user-generated content to upload and use.
Then, Giovanni Rodriguez on social media trends and clichés:
The resocialization of the Web is challenging our most cherished notions of reality – of blogging, faith, and money. It’s time we examine those notions, and perhaps invent new ones.
Thomas Husson of Jupiter Research with predictions for the media industry et al., plus David Cards predictions for media and technology and this write-up of 2006 by Todd Chanko. All worthy some of your time.
Mark Pohlmann of SinnerSchrader looks back and forth (in german language):
Web 2.0-Agenda 2007 … drei Stichworte: Mavens, Video, Social Commerce
And, finally (and most interesting for me and frogpond) Dion Hinchcliffe sums up what he thinks will happen with Enterprise 2.0 during 2007 …
Enterprise 2.0 platforms can provide highly general purpose, freeform, do-it-yourself (DIY) tools that have the potential to solve an entire group of related and overlapping problems in collaboration, knowledge management, SOA adoption, self-service IT, and even overall worker productivity that have been plaguing IT and business for years.
Note also this interesting chart by Dion:
Add Jerry Bowles five predictions for enterprise 2.0 in 2007, or Mike Cannon-Brookes’ excellent write-up and a nice picture of enterprise 2.0 adoption in the enterprise evolves … we’ll look back in 2008.
