At the beginning of 2010 you may remember that I made some web predictions. As the year has come and gone I thought I would be brave and revisit what I predicted to see if any of it came true..
Emerging super powers and developing nations drive innovation
This is pretty hard to validate either way but logic reasons that this will happen very soon if it hasn’t already. We have seen a large increase in places like China where Internet usage grew by around 73.3 million people in 2010.
Location based social networks
The emergence of sites such foursquare and Gowalla made a big impact towards the end of 2010. Twitter have also added locations to your Tweets so it looks like location based Social Networking is here to stay.
Real-time search
A hit on this one as Google introduces real time search for news and social network updates in 2010. It probably hasn’t made as big of an impact as I thought it would have but it will become more prominent as the year continues.
Magazine and Newspaper Apps
iPad anyone? They have the platform but the jury is still out for me on whether they have the pricing mechanisms in place……we shall see.
Someone…somewhere…will find an effective use for Google Wave
OK, I got this one gloriously wrong but I do still think it had its uses. One of the many failures that Google seemingly aren’t afraid to make, the plug was pulled on further development in August, just four months after its launch. The product wasn’t well defined, ahead of its time? Who knows?
Tags: 2010, Google Wave, Location based social networks
