In view of the upcoming New Year, I want to share this information, which actually came from the Yugatech blog on what we could expect will happen in our internet life. I have included my inputs among them.
1. At least one blogger will get published. It will be a book about a blog, not a book about blogging.
I am not surprised about this. There are already tons of blogs having their posts published and sold in various bookstores. Have you seen the books from Postsecret.com.
2. More bloggers with bow down to Google’s wrath, drop TLA and all other link ads. Matt Cutts will personally see to it that those who put out links because of any form of sponsorship will get their day in Google hell.
Okay, I have to admit I’m one of those who still uses Google Adsense, TLA and other links ads. Yet, somehow I find it hard to believe that these will easily go away. The internet has provided a way for many people to earn extra income. Even if, let’s say, these will go away there would be, I bet, other ways for people to be able to learn extra income online.
3. Mobile Advertising will significantly rise. And no it’s not AdSense for Mobile but AdMob. The iPod Touch, iPhone, N95 and upcoming Nokia Touchscreen S60 devices will push this. The web will slowly move on to the mobile phone.
With the way mobile phones are being used nowadays and how people continously use them to bring ‘EVERYTHING’ they digitally have at their disposal, advertising will definitely go to a whole new level.
4. Facebook will be the next Friendster. Everyone will be on Facebook that it won’t be that cool anymore. It will fade away, in favor of a newer fad.
Have you seen how many social networks are there already?! I was never one to continously join one social network group one after another even when I am invited. My friendster account is enough for me as of the moment and I even rarely update that as I have a blog to regularly pore my heart into. In truth though, I have heard that Facebook is gaining more popularity. As for Friendster, well, it is a household term but one that is remembered being the first in its field but is eventually loosing to something potentially deemed better.
5. Bloggers will blog less and flock more on Twitter. It needs to get bought though in order to survive. Maybe by Yahoo. Google already went with Jaiku 3 months ago.
Sorry I can’t comment much on this. I don’t know Twitter. XD But then, certain sites have survived because of search engine giants buying them. It wouldn’t be a surprise really.
6. More bloggers with join main stream media. It will more likely be broadcast media rather than print.
With the way internet is dominating lives and how video internet is making waves of propagating information to everyone, video is the key to success. XD
7. Adsense will lose its age-old glory, thanks to prediction #2 and the fall of the US dollar.
I have to honestly say that I am feeling the wrath of this fact. :(
8. A 2010 Presidential candidate will blog, and will actually write it himself/herself.
Almost everyone knows what a blog is how blogs can be a PR campaign to sweeten the image of a company or of a potential Presidential candidate.
9. Podcasting will continue to fade. Unless, there’s a good model that presents itself, it will be hard to continue producing podcasts. Just look at what happened to PodTech (a podcast network) in the US.
I only see the potential of podcasts when it comes to downloading educational materials for language and such. As for mp3 downloads, well there is a problem with that.
10. Local e-commerce will finally take a huge leap forward, thanks in part to Paypal. Let’s just hope that this doesn’t make the hackers/crackers/phishers work double-time.
This is what I call an early Christmas gift for Philippine bloggers from Paypal. Hooray!
