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eLearning Technology. Last year I laid out in January my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008. In my post, 2008 2009 - written in December 2008, I looked at how well I did in those predictions, and my results were pretty good, not perfect. So, let's try it again this year ... #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" IncreasesDue to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and support. #2 - eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 tools.

At the same time, organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0 Strategies will move much slower than organizations who adopt easy to use tools and make tactical use of these tools. #4 - Quick Wins & Toolkits #12 - Data Driven. Top Internet Trends 2010: A Guide To The Best Predictions From T. 10 Web trends to watch in 2010. Mashable's Pete Cashmore says real-time communication, Internet TV and social gaming will be big in 2010. Mashable's Pete Cashmore lists his 10 Web trends that we'll be talking about next year 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 Editor's note: 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. (CNN) -- As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Real-time ramps up Sparked by Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed, the real-time trend has been to the latter part of 2009 what "Web 2.0" was to 2007. Location, location, location Augmented reality Content 'curation' Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: A Bold Prediction. I'm not convinced Amazon has a long-term commitment to the Kindle hardware business. In fact, I'll go so out on a limb and predict that Amazon will completely exit the Kindle hardware space within the next 3 years.

Here are a few reasons why: Zero evolution in 2 years. Compare today's Kindle 2 and DX models to the original Kindle. The current versions have pretty much the same functionality as the original. And don't tell me native PDF support was a big change...that should have been there from the start! I had totally different expectations when I opened my Kindle v1 and saw the "experimental" features.

I was reading my Kindle during a recent cross-country flight. I'm not down on Amazon, btw. I had high hopes back in November of 2007 but Amazon is clearly hedging their hardware bet by offering the Kindle iPhone app as well as the Kindle for PC (beta) and Kindle for Mac (forthcoming) apps. Technologies To Watch Fail In 2009. 2009 Web Predictions - ReadWriteWeb. It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right!

"The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards" (Google, Yahoo and others did this); "Mobile web usage will be a big story in 2008" (check!) ; "Web Services platforms will be a fierce battleground" (Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine were released and AWS grew). We also got some wrong, including most of our acquisition picks! Digg, Twitter, Zoho, Tumblr - all remain independent. So check out our predictions for '09 and please contribute your own in the comments. Richard MacManus iTunes adds social networking features; but it's still a closed development system. Marshall Kirkpatrick Sarah Perez Twitter announces they have a plan to make money.

Bernard Lunn VCs jump onto the SAAS bandwagon, but most ventures don't need the cash. Frederic Lardinois.