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- OBKenobi, on 12/27/2008, -2/+241. I don't care about Twitter.
2. Why I don't care about Twitter.
3. This is going to be a spam nightmare. Not going to be easy blocking embedded ads inside applications and streaming content. It's not like you could just block the IP or keyword anymore.
4. MSN is in even worse shape than Yahoo. Why does Yahoo get all the bad publicity?
5. At most 3%.
6. No, they will continue pirating Office, or using OpenOffice.
7. No, Facebook will not become a user's default search engine.
8. Could be? But it probably won't be significantly better than the competition. - 7Wiseguy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+151. Global riots and chaos
2. More natural disasters
3. Unrest in China
4. Sean Hannity gets a tumor on his *****
5. Apple releases new Iphone but nobody buys it
6. Global water shortage
7. We discover that Osama is been dead for a long time
8. Lakers win the NBA championship
9. Lou Dobbs gets laid off
- DiggItalia, on 12/27/2008, -1/+9My prediction is that 53.2% of the given predictions will be totally wrong, while the rest will be utterly inaccurate.
Luckily for them, we'll all forget this article in a 2 days time. - CoreyTamas, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7Lots and lots of opinions, just like tons of other Digg users. Not one iota of supporting data for any of it also like tons of other Digg users.
- lowtolerance, on 12/26/2008, -3/+10These actually sound like some pretty sound predictions.
- manzplan, on 12/26/2008, -2/+7my Prediction is that I finally get something to the front page of Digg in the month of January.
- jimminy, on 12/27/2008, -2/+52009 will be the year of the Linux desktop. And it's not even a prediction, it's a well known fact.
- KingFog, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4The "Web OS"? What the hell?
All the "examples" they gave were purely rich-media content players... Can anyone else here imagine an OS written in Flash?
Getting a real Web OS to work decently (I know there are a few around, I forget their names, but they are pretty basic) will take a lot more than using things like Silverlight, Flex and Flash!
Out of this article, the only thing I can see as actually happening is Microsoft's Web-based Office Suite, and perhaps Chrome gaining marketshare... Otherwise, what a load of crap... - TimDigg, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I always thought Office Live was web based version of office, guess I was wrong...
- DiggItalia, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3They forgot to mention that for running a web OS you need to go on the web first, with a proper OS.
See? we call that redundancy. - diggkris, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Yahoo's going down in 2009, can't remember the last time i used one of their products.
- rframpton, on 12/27/2008, -2/+4Flying cars.
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Wow, MySpace is still the largest in the US? In Canadia, I don't know anyone besides gradeschoolers who've used it since Facebook opened publically.
- olenick, on 12/27/2008, -1/+2* Consumers stop paying credit bills in droves, as people realize their "great" credit rating is virtually meaningless; "banks" (whatever that means anymore) finally begin to fail in large numbers despite their corporate welfare bailouts.
* As banks fail government realizes what caused the Great Depression was that people lost their savings when banks failed, but this isn't happening because of FDIC insurance; people just move their money to new banks run by smarter people.
* Government realizes if banks sell credit-card debt for $.02 on the dollar and mortgage CDO debt for $.10/dollar they may as well offer a right of first refusal to the debt owners for the same deal ("pay off your $10K credit-card for $200 or refi your $500K mortgage for $50K"); people accept and the trickle-down era of debt disappears relatively quickly. This causes many unhappy people who say they like the free-market but it's "unfair" when it benefits their neighbors; they're finally ignored. Despite much whining form pious hypocrites, this finally causes the US economy to begin to recover.
* US debt is down-graded as international rating agencies come to grips that the liabilities the baby boomers have left behind -- unfunded social security, stunning debt from inadequate taxes, crumbling infrastructure, an uneducated and lazy population -- isn't going to be able to repay the debt the boomers accrued and still run the country. This causes high-inflation as the Fed turns printing presses up even higher. Luckily, this decreases the remaining debt and inflates home values, righting mortgages of those who didn't already default. It wipes out a few more banks and hedge funds; nobody cares.
* An existing web company or two becomes a media superstar, like Disney did in the last Depression.
* Many bankers and politicians are indicted; their peers are "shocked" at the behavior their friends are indicted for, until they're indicted for the same thing.
* All this makes for a miserable '09 but sows the seeds of recovery so all the gadgets and gizmos and quaint things the writer of this author seems to think anybody will care about actually become relevant and affordable sometime in the future. - inactive, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvldNM_UnGM
- hydr, on 12/27/2008, -2/+33 boom in Pakistan and 2 boom in India. Kashmir turns independent. Israel go out on an all offensive in Gaza, while Lebanon starts firing off rockets again. The great stock market crash of 2009 gets underway, which takes the DOW down to a mere 5000.
Did I miss anythin´? - ElGubrush, on 12/28/2008, -0/+11. Insane weather continues but is dealt with better
2. Terrorist strike outside of US
3. Economy will continue going downhill (It's going to take a long time to clean up this mess)
4. Craigslist will continue to grow fueled by raised need for cheap goods
5. LHC turned on, earth implodes - ElGubrush, on 12/28/2008, -0/+1I thought it said predictions, not wishlist
- jamesmcm, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1Well it allows you to store and access everything remotely which is quite useful for work.
- bipolarruledout, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1Microsoft can never decide... so they do EVERYTHING.... the things that make money tend to make up for the ones that don't.
- TimDigg, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1I just wish Microsoft would figure what their web direction is going to be
Is it..
MSN.com or Live.com
With MSN being a yahoo like portal and Live.com being a google like service - meed, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1I predict: That bush and many of his lackeys /puppet masters will flee the country after he leaves office and illegal actions and lies are uncovered. Russia will return to communism, Pakistan and India will blow each other off the face of the earth with their nukes. Freedom on the internet will become a thing of the past in many areas of the world. The Swedish pirate party will win many important seats in their governments. The RIAA and MPAA will continue to act like mobsters and sue people for not buying their crappy content. The UN will continue to prove itself to be as corrupt and ineffective as ever, start blaming all western industrial nations for global warming while allowing "developing nations" to continue to trash the environment.
- svivian, on 12/28/2008, -0/+1What's wrong with both? live.com for services, msn.com for news/information. Though it's unlikely I'd ever use either.
- bipolarruledout, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1There are a few niches on myspace... perhaps the biggest being music. If you're not on myspace then you don't have a band.
- bipolarruledout, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1If you a toaster to be a desktop.
- svivian, on 12/28/2008, -0/+1There will never be a "WebOS", at least not how most people seem to be envisaging it. The limit will be syncing all your documents with another server, SVN-style. No matter how fast broadband connections get, they will always be slower than a local machine for storage and running apps. #3 should have been replaced with "solid state hard drives", which will undoubtedly start replacing traditional drives in 2009.
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -2/+2are they surely gonna be true
- yaosio, on 12/27/2008, -1/+1Thanks for the credit card spam.
- yaosio, on 12/27/2008, -1/+1Here's a summary:
Web 1412.425 will become more idiotic and worthless. - inactive, on 12/27/2008, -3/+2digg that man up
- jayhawk, on 12/27/2008, -2/+1facebook won't become the default search engine; however, it is growing incredibly rapidly. i graduated in 1988 and over the past 2 months my friend list has grown from about 20 to well over 100 and it's almost entirely old high school buddies and some family. once facebook opened things up, they poised themselves to grow, grow, grow and they are, are, are. i wouldn't be surprised to see them quickly take over MySpace. i have yet to get fake friend requests (spam) in facebook, but it's bound to start happening, unfortunately.
- Encablossa, on 12/27/2008, -4/+2Too long, too boring..
- rainbowaura, on 12/27/2008, -4/+0fail
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