Archive for the 'Predictions' Category

Web 3.0 Defined

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Web 1.0: Centralised Them
Web 2.0: Distributed Us
Web 3.0: Decentralised Me
Web 3.0 must be about me! It’s about me when I don’t want to participate in the world. It’s about me when I want to have more control of my environment particularly who I let in. When my attention is stretched who/what do I pay attention […]

What Will Happen December 12th, 2012?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

If you haven’t heard about it yet, don’t worry… you have 4 years left to be endlessly annoyed by it. Sorry to break it to you, but the world’s going to end on 12/21/12.
 
Well, technically 12/23/12… but 12/21/12 is much nore auspiscious, so the doomsday theorists conveniently changed it.
 
Why? The ancient Mayan calendar ends on this […]

15 Companies That Will Change The World

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Blinkx
CEO: Suranga Chandratillake
Disruption: Web video search and ad insertion
Disrupted: Search engines and the TV ad business
The fastest growing segment of Internet advertising is video, and Blinkx’s video search engine aims to capitalize on the trend. Blinkx indexes more than 14 million hours of video available on the Web, using software that turns speech into text […]

Bell Ringing for Facebook?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I’m at the Phuket Kings Cup at KaNaeng restaurant in Ao Chalong. I come up to say “hi” to a Darwin girl named Jo that I hadn’t seen in a year or so. She’s sort of a drifter, just sails around the world and well… drifts.
 
The best way to get in contact with Jo is to […]

2008 All About Live Video

Monday, December 31st, 2007

If Youtube and recorded video was all the buzz in 2007, I think live video will be all the buzz in 2008. http://www.ustream.tv/ is already positioning themselves as the Youtube for live TV.
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Mass UFO Siting Posted On YouTube

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Every once in a while you have to take a long shot and go with your hunch. It just dawned on me one day, that this is bound to happen… probably within the next several years.
 
I’m betting a mass audience sees a UFO and films it, and all the various footages and vantages get posted to […]

Ron Paul for President 2008

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I think Ron Paul is the longest shot for president in 2008, he’s basically unelectable. However, if there was ever a period in American history where the unelectable has a chance, it’s this upcoming election.
 
Following the Bush administration’s near flawless drive to bring the nation and world straight down deep into the shitter, the American people are ready for a change […]

The Web Won the Platform Wars

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Jeff Huber, Googles VP of Engineering, in a recent talk about Google Gadgets says that the platform wars are over, the winner has already emerged… it’s the Web itself.
 
What we see is applications fundamentally changing. Just like the model for content changed from monolithic sites, now applications are going to be feeds and containers. A […]