Could These Start-Ups Become the Next Big Thing? Fjord digital trends 2012. Millward Brown dévoile ses 12 prédictions digitales pour 2012. 12 Digital Predictions for 2012.
VIDEO. Beyond Tablets: The Next Five Computing Form Factors - Sarah Rotman Epps - Voices. With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 a few short weeks away, it’s a good time to look ahead at what’s next for consumer technology. All eyes have been on tablets: Apple sold 40 million iPads in just 18 months, with 11 million sold in this past quarter alone — phenomenal growth for a new form factor. With the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet finding their own successful markets, it’s easy to see why tablets attract so much attention and excitement. But computing evolution doesn’t end here — tablets, while still growing rapidly as a category, are not the final form factor. Product strategists in the PC industry are gearing up for 2012 to be the year of the “ultrabook” — very thin, very light laptops, usually with solid-state drives (SSD), that compete with Apple’s MacBook Air — such as the Asus Zenbook and Lenovo U300s.
Wearables: Wearable devices, or “wearables” for short, are devices worn on or near the body that sense and relay information. Ten Digital Trends Set to Go Mass-Market In 2012. Yahoo! Insights Wrap-up and 2012 Outlook | Yahoo! Advertising Blog. 5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012. The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers. Recently, I had an opportunity to speak about those opportunities at ThinkLA’s Trends Breakfast, a gathering of media, entertainment and advertising professionals in Los Angeles.
While you can view my full presentation in the video above, here’s a quick look at some of what I think lies ahead for 2012 in media and advertising (with some fresh updates since my presentation, which was given in early November). 1. Social Curation and Mobile Will Drive Growth for Media Organizations The rise of mobile and tablets is having a profound impact on media consumption habits. More broadly speaking, tablet apps that also take into account what your social network is sharing – like Flipboard, Zite and Pulse – are becoming important new distribution channels. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Digital Predictions for 2012 / Millward Brown. The Future of Social Media: 38 Experts Share Their Predictions For 2012 | Business 2 Community. Roger McNamee: Six ways to save the internet.
From destination social to dispersed social: 10 trends in social me... 2011 Internet Trends. Mary Meeker (former Wall Street analyst turned venture capitalist at KPCB) has released her well-recognized Internet Trends 2011 report. Presented at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, the report–which is publicly available –captured 11 key trends based on various points of analysis.
Per usual, we are commenting on some of what we perceive to be the most relevant (to our audience), actionable, and sometimes not entirely obvious insights below: “‘Record’ is the new QWERTY”: The evolution of the triggers associated with user interface have evolved from text-entry to graphical representations, to touch-based, and now to sound/audio and motion based.
We need only look at the iPhone (and at the Wii) to demonstrate this transition. Wo other points that Meeker places particular emphasis on are the highly global nature of internet use, growth and innovation, and on the rapid evolution of internet-enabled connectivity from our keyboards to our phones. Internet Trends 2011.