Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of 'SixthSense' technology-TV-Economic Times. Trends: 2010 Content Technology Predictions. With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year. This is our fourth year in a row trying to read the future, and like most predictors, our track record is mixed.
If you'd like to see how we've done, you can view past predictions here: 2009, 2008, and 2007. On a whole, we think 2010 will be characterized by a movement by "back to the basics" among technology vendors. This includes a renewed focus on internal content technology applications as we describe in today's press release. While some of these changes may seem modest, oftentimes recessionary times are the catalysts for necessary changes to be made.
(One prediction we can guarantee is that 2010 will bring lots of new and exciting changes coming to CMS Watch, so keep watching this space!) Without further ado, here are our 2010 Content Technology Predictions. KnowledgeWorks Foundation - Future of Learning - 2006 Map. Six Social Media Trends for 2010 - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org. By David Armano | 9:54 AM November 2, 2009 In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that’s my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year? 1. 2. 4. 5. 6. These are a few emerging trends that come to my mind — I’m interested to hear what you think as well, so please weigh in with your own thoughts.
David Armano is a Senior Vice President at Edelman Digital, the interactive arm of global communications firm Edelman. 5 web technologies to make you say 'WTF?' With most things online, the benefits are immediately obvious: Google Street View, say, or online banking, or social networking. With others, though, we're baffled. Imagine if Audi unveiled its latest project, and instead of a car it was a tuba made of cheese glued to the back of a Mexican donkey. That's pretty much what we think about these… 1. 3D shopping Imagine online shopping without the speed, without the simplicity, without the easy comparison of related products and with a really crappy song by Sting blasting out of the speakers the moment you arrive.
Shame on you, Amazon Windowshop Beta. Shame on you! "Music without the mushrooms", says a man from Gizmodo. 3. Imagine a tag cloud with its usefulness removed and you've got a wordle: a block of text, a web page or an RSS feed turned into a pretty picture showing the most commonly used words in big letters. 4. First, there was the read-only Web; then, the interactive Web. 5. It's from Google! Liked this? Top Marketing Geeks Make Their Predictions for 2009 - ReadWriteWeb.
Will 2009 be the big year for corporate transparency, for a global conversation - perhaps for bargain basement online marketing tactics instead of old-school huge commercial campaigns? Peter Kim, a former Forrester analyst now working on stealth enterprise software company, recently polled 14 of the most high-profile thinkers about social media marketing and asked them what they expected to see 2009 bring. The end product was an attractive 23 page PDF that we've embedded below, but we thought we'd pull out some of the thoughts we found most interesting for all you skimmers out there.
Social shopping "Now with connective technologies like Facebook Connect, Google FriendConnect, and OpenID, consumers will now be able to see reviews, experiences, and critiques from people they actually know and trust. " - Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester Research Access "Twitter will continue to achieve legitimacy. Our take: This makes sense, and it's pretty funny to think about. Quality vs Quantity in Social Media.