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louisgray.com: 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech

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Jan 01, 2009

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1) The Real-Time Web Will Become Critical for News and Information Discovery

Delayed news will no longer be acceptable for early adopters, who will gravitate to the quickest sources of news, wherever they may be. As tools like Twitter Search and FriendFeed real-time offer people to rapidly broadcast their updates, reactions and news with true immediacy, a segment of the population will adopt these real-time sources and favor them ahead of delayed or filtered engines, including RSS, and of course, edited mass media. At the same time, while many of us early adopters may be fairly noisy about this development, we will remain in the significant minority, even as the mainstream becomes more aware of these options.

2) Businesses Will Be Expected to Be On Social Media If They Have Web Sites

In the mid and late 1990s, there was a land rush for domain names, as every company jumped in an

Comments (5)

Louisgray,

Jan 01, 2009

Wow, you're fast. I swear I just posted that. :-)

Michaelfidler,

Jan 01, 2009

@ sarahcrisman Have a Happy New Year! This is an interesting topic that Scoble raised on FF today. It was also a big issue I had with the Q&A at the Israel Consulate. It was difficult to tread the conversation together, even though twitter is considered Real-Time. I learned about tweetree at the end of it, which would have helped. I'll have to try it on the next live event. Now I better read this post! Read it, I hope he's right about Twitter and friendfeed. Number 10 is a freebie. I think TechCrunch will be purchased by the end of the year, regardless of who they acquire(I think any acquisition will better position them to be acquired) Finally did you notice in his last set of predictions, that the first one already came true. Socialmedain was already acquired, two months before he predicted it would be. Not bad!

Sarahcrisman,

Jan 01, 2009

@louisgray I'm like lightning sometimes (or I'm tethered to Tweetdeck, either way). Your predictions seem right on, we've got a very interesting year ahead of us. I can see Twitter getting a bit more mainstream (the way Facebook was in '08). I hope they stay independent in the meantime.

@michaelfidler And a Happy New Year to you as well! I look forward to keeping up over the months ahead and continuing our fantastic conversations.

It's going to be a brilliant year!