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What To Look For In 2007?

December 29th, 2006 | Categories: off topic, social media, trends

As the new year approaches, the blogosphere and tech world has entered a lull over the past week. I expect that next week will bring about exciting launches and interesting news, especially with CES only a week away.

From a more general perspective, what am I predicting for 2007?

  • Expanded use of wikis and user-collaboration tools to increase productivity.
  • Niche social networks continue to pop up and attract small, but loyal followings.
  • Vertical search engines prosper.
  • VOIP becomes the standard for landlines.
  • Proliferation of blogs throughout corporate landscape, as more organizations embrace this new form of media.
  • RSS becomes ‘more’ mainstream, not widespread just yet.
  • New ad medium to potentially thwart the overrated/click-fraud burdened Google AdWords system?
  • More widget-ized services for maximum exposure and distribution.
  • Google web browser?

Sounds good? Or not? Let me know your thoughts…

6 Comments

  1. Jeremy David Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 1:18 pm

    Wow I’d be interested to see this post again next year and see what comes true. All your predictions certainly have the potential to.

    The only thing I hope doesn’t happen is an increase in Social Networks. There are already way too many. I don’t want to have to sign up for any more.

  2. Luke Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

    I am really looking to seeing the fight of Google to make Adwords/Adsense respectable and working system again. They are under a huge pressure to make improvements right now.

  3. Aidan Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 7:00 pm

    Jeremy -

    I do hope for an increase in the amount of niche social networks for one reason. These targeted groups develop stronger, more focused communities with loyal followings. However, I am also hoping for an open ID system, whereby user information is universally accessible across all social networks. This would eliminate your concern.

    Luke -

    I look forward to that fight as well. I am convinced that Google needs to clean up its act soon, or it will be leap-frogged sooner rather than later.

    Cheers,
    Aidan

  4. Tony Says:
    December 31st, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    For new ad medium I predict an increase in more natural looking links. Along the lines of TLA, ReviewMe, PayPerPost, etc.

    Google web browser? All they really want you to do is to search using their services. Google already pushes for Firefox (compiled with their toolbar), so I’d pass on a full out browser, but I guess we’ll see.

  5. Anonymous Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    What To Look For In 2007?

    As the new year approaches, the blogosphere and tech world has entered a lull over the past week. I expect that next week will bring about exciting launches and interesting news

  6. Tony Says:
    January 2nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    I realize that you’ve just posted your predictions for 2007, but.. care to make another more specific to blogging itself?

    http://compsci.ca/blog/blog-predictions-for-2007-blogs-as-resume/

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