9 Predictions for 2010
November 25, 2009 by
Adam
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Entrepreneurship
Where were you when we welcomed the new millennium? It seems quite quaint to look back at that moment and remember our fears. Computerized technology would fail everywhere as it would not be able to adapt and recognize the arrival of the new century. Fast forward ten years and our online lives have changed beyond all recognition. We may not be worrying about the millennium bug when the clocks tick over shortly (although some of us may now be anticipating 2012) but we do anticipate an even more exciting new era as web and technological development gathers even more pace.
What will the new year bring? Here are some peeks into the blogtrepreneur crystal ball:
Location tools proliferate within social networks.
Although privacy concerns continue to be heard in the background, an increasing number of applications will prompt us to reveal our exact location to our friends and followers. These apps have been somewhat slow to catch on so far but as instantaneous, real-time social communications becomes more refined, GPS location tracking through our smartphones is close behind.
Social media will birth business media.
There will be a delineation between widespread office or business use of social networking and a dedicated, similar set of initiatives specifically for the business environment. As Twitter continues to fail to define its true potential and as businesses demand more focused options, commerce will provide social media type platforms for its exclusive use.
Apps will finally make sense of Twitter
If Twitter is to survive as a tool of any value, it must make more sense and present a more usable platform from a commercial perspective. How much longer the network can survive without displaying a meaningful business model is questionable. Application developers have been the savior already. In 2010 they will truly come to the rescue and re-position Twitter in the nick of time.
Microsoft Wave will arrive, but it won’t be a tsunami.
It’s been in beta mode endlessly, but it should break out and splash on the beach anytime soon. In 2010 Google’s new toy will further integrate multiple forms of communication. How long will it be before we only have one real social network, which incorporates all our other playthings. How much longer will we put up with having to automatically update Facebook with our Twitter status, show our Twitter feed on our blog and tag back and forth ad infinitum.
Facebook falls over itself one too many times and stunts its meteoric growth.
Facebook fails to listen to its users time and again and in 2010 this level of dismissal will combine with some game changing missteps. The novelty of it all will start to wear off as Facebook is seen as more of a mainstream activity and the platform will finally find its natural level.
Mobile net will flourish
As we now have some great hardware, good packaging, balanced operating systems and an accepting public we can expect mobile Internet to take hold. Dot mobi sites will enable us to interact with our phones without a constant flurry of pinching and scrolling. Mobile e-commerce may not be too far behind.
Outsourcing and virtual assistance will boom
Efficiency has been a byword of 2009 and it will be embedded in the psyche for 2010. Organizations must be super efficient in everything they do and there will likely be a considerable shift toward outsourcing and the adoption of virtual assistant services. “Just in time” delivery without added overhead will be expected.
Black hat continues to die and great content drives a thirst for education
Internet marketing will finally transition from “smoke and mirrors” and black or gray hat activities, as the thirst for web-based knowledge knows no bounds. Increasingly smart search engine algorithms accelerate the demise of junk websites and pages, as good content is at a premium.
Design technology and SEO catch up with each other.
Traditional methods of search engine optimization tend to favor the static approach. Flash-based websites will soon be able to deliver a great user experience and be viewed as meaningful, searchable, deep, indexable and rich.
Your predictions?
Adam Toren
I agree that the mighty Google will look into the whole “user experience” and not just static, boring pages!
Interactive and modern content will will out and that includes using flash, video etc.
For some sales specific predictions please check out the link below:
http://www.mtdsalestraining.com/mtdblog/10-sales-industry-predictions-for-2010.html
Thanks again
Sean
Great list,, Might want to add, that twitter has a 50/50 chance at stopping it’s growth with to many changes, issues, and spam attacks.
I agree with most of your predictions but I dont think facebook will suffer that much. I think twitter may have more to lose than facebook.. who knows..
I do think facebook will slow down and might decline but i think they got the top spot at just the right time.
Simple typo - Google Wave, not Microsoft Wave.
Included on this progress are more powerful spywares so in order to be prepared for it we should have a good antivirus firewall software to prevent those.
Now this is quite a great post! Indeed I agree 100% on location tools that will proliferate (what we call location based services) closely linked to mobile internet… in other words, cell phone will be the next revolution… again, great post, let’s wait and see in 2010…
Good predictions for the 2010. Yes, I think cellphone will be the next revolution.
I think the future is all about the way we can combine data to make something better. I have seen some amazing videos on ted.com where they take thousands of images from twitter, of the same object, from all different angles and then basically created an extremely high quality 3d image of something like a building.
That’s like predicting lottery numbers, lol. But I’ll give it a go, since I can’t wait for this tournament to start and any mention of it makes me giddy. It’s by far my favorite, exceeding the CL or Euro by far.
Wow, good predictions… To where do you look for making predictions on trends? Do you see social networking sites remaining independent or do you think they will merge in the future into one join site/network?
Nice predictions!Even the Virtual Assistant services is greatly affected by the changes in online community this new year.
I hope your prediction with mobile browsing is correct. I’d love to see the flourishment of .mobi websites. Especially once these new tablets come out, it’ll be interesting to see what people do with their websites and the tablets touch screen capabilities.