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  • What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008




    Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 2, 2008 1:30 AM

    / 23 Comments

















    Some people say that the bubble's going to take a downturn in the next year or two - that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) words.



    While startup churn is inevitable in any industry (thank goodness we're not restaurant founders!) I think this forecast is selling the future short. There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008. Whatever happens to the economy, there's at least a whole lot of innovation to be inspired by right now. Ultimately, I think that will end up brightening the picture for all of us around the world.

  • Some people say that the bubble's going to take a downturn in the next year or two - that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) words.



    While startup churn is inevitable in any industry (thank goodness we're not restaurant founders!) I think this forecast is selling the future short. There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008. Whatever happens to the economy, there's at least a whole lot of innovation to be inspired by right now. Ultimately, I think that will end up brightening the picture for all of us around the world.

  • The burgeoning Attention standard APML and various other efforts you can learn more about at sites like DataPortability.org.
  • rated from the category above, the future is likely to be even more swamped in data, social and content options than the web is today. From Google Reader's recent incorporation of both feed recommendations and shared items in Reader from your contacts in GMail to the ascendancy of services like Last.fm, Pandora and StumbleUpon - re
  • Dr. Rick Hangartner said...

    In the near term, search engines will increasingly incorporate simple recommender technologies to handle approximate queries (e.g. “You asked for this, and based on similar queries/behavior by others, you might be looking for this.”).
  • on 2008-01-04 Tacanderson
    This is a seriously amazing post.

    Not only do I think that Marshall nailed the upcomming trends, this is an amazing collection of feeds and resources.  What ever you do grab the feeds he's built.

    Hs top 5 predictions for 08
    1. Open Data
    2. Recommendation
    3. Semantic Web
    4. Mobile
    5. Visualization

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