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2009 Web Predictions

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Dec 30, 2008

Summary

It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media.

Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! "The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards" (Google, Yahoo and others did this); "Mobile web usage will be a big story in 2008" (check!); "Web Services platforms will be a fierce battleground" (Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine were released and AWS grew). We also got some wrong, including most of our acquisition picks! Digg, Twitter, Zoho, Tumblr - all remain independent. Not to be deterred, we've made new acquisition predictions for '09... although the names will be familiar ;-)

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So check out our predictions for '09 and please contribute your own in the comments.

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Comments (5)

Coldacid,

Dec 30, 2008

Some very interesting predictions for 2009. Some of them I agree with, a couple I highly doubt will come to be. But we'll see how these turn out this time next year.