Pete Cashmore lists his 10 Web trends that we'll be talking about next year:
1- Real-time ramps up
2- Location, location, location
3- Augmented reality
4- Content 'curation'
5- Cloud computing
6- Internet TV and movies
7- Convergence conundrum
8- Social gaming
9- Mobile payments
10- Fame abundance, privacy scarcity
Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
The story highlights:
- Sparked by Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed, the real-time communications trend will grow.
- The cloud-computing movement will see a major leap forward in the first half of 2010.
- 2010 will be the breakthrough year of the much-anticipated mobile payments market.
He states his idea about Augmented Reality in the next year as follows:
- It's yet to become part of the consumer consciousness, but augmented reality has attracted early-adopter buzz in the latter part of 2009. Enabled by GPS, mapping data from the likes of Google and the accelerometer technology in modern phones, AR involves overlaying data on your environment; imagine walking around a city and seeing it come to life with reviews of the restaurants you walk past and Wikipedia entries about the sights you see.
- When using Layar, for instance, the picture from your phone's video camera is overlaid with bubbles of information from Yelp, Wikipedia, Google Search and Twitter. The challenge for such services is to prove their utility: They have the "cool factor," but can they be truly useful?
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I was looking for an article like this!
ReplyDeleteWhen I did my research into "Web 2.0, the next big bubble?" I was wondering where I could find an article which outlines new technology and web trends just like this.
I am still not sure though it google wave will be the next big thing. I like the thought in the article about location. After having read the compendium about ubicomp it seemed to me that location might become a smaller factor instead of a bigger.