“Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010.” Some of my picks were spot on: the
Tablet (
hello, iPad),
Geo (Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places, mobile location-aware search, etc.),
Realtime Search (it became an
option on Google) and
Android (now even
bigger than the iPhone). Some are still playing out:
HTML5 (it’s made great strides, but isn’t quite here yet),
Augmented Reality (lots of cool apps have AR functionality, but for the most part it is still a parlor trick),
Mobile Video (
FaceTime and
streaming video apps pushed it forward),
Mobile Transactions (Square and other transaction processing options came onto the scene), and
Social CRM (Salesforce pushed Chatter, and tons of social CRM startups pushed their wares, but enterprises are always slow to adopt). And one got pushed to 2011:
Chrome OS (we are
still waiting).