Top ten new things for 2008
At last, Christmas has passed, and now we can turn our attention to the big tech trends for 2008. Soothsaying comes in units of ten (ask Moses), so here goes:1. AJAX will stop being something developers use to hype web site build prices, and start being a serious method for delivering very smooth and usable web apps. 2. Google will switch from an auction pay-per-click model to a revenue-share model. Google wants a slice of the economy, and it’s going to get it. 3. The rate of web application development will continue exponentially. We can expect to see more sophisticated web apps arriving much more quickly and for much less. This is being driven by highly extensible and inter-operable languages such as Ruby on Rails, and even Microsoft’s ASP.NET 3.5. 4. I hope the term Content Management System will die.5. Small businesses will wake-up to the business efficiencies they can gain from integrated web solutions.6. People will see their www. as only a small part of their online strategy.7. Social networking sites may have reached their apex - I hope so, because I don’t want to update my Facebook status anymore.8. Skype will stop dropping packets from voice calls.9. Google’s successor will be born.10. A broadsheet newspaper will stop physical distribution.
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