Coming up in 2005?
p2pnet.net News View:- "Early in 2004, I was starting to think that the Web was becoming rather boring," writes WebTalk Radio’s Rob Greenlee.
"But as the year rolled on, it became a more interesting place again thanks to events like Google’s IPO and all the new competitive energies growing out of Web search, desktop search, weblog’s, podcasting and digital online media.
Here are his 2005 Global Internet Trend Predictions:
1. MOBILE DIGITAL MEDIA EXPLODES
"The growth in the availability of wired and wireless broadband connectivity has really driven the availability of MP3 and Windows Media video and audio file formats. This availability of cheap bandwidth has triggered the rapid growth in content creation and transition of analog content over to digital media formats. The other two factors to impact the rapid growth of available digital content is the recent improvement in media file compression codec’s that have enabled small file sizes for very high quality playback and the rapid release of many inexpensive digital media playback devices. Smart phones and other portable media devices with large SD Cards, micro-hard drive memory and integrated Wi-Fi and high speed cellular data networks will become the primary way people view and listen to digital media in 2005 and beyond."
2. WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY GROWS FASTER
3. MOST NETIZENS BECOME DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS
4. MOBLOGS BECOME ALL THE RAGE
5. MEDIA SEARCH & ELECTRONIC IPTV PROGRAM GUIDES CONVERGE
6. LOCAL / GEOGRAPHICAL WEB SEARCH
7. WEBLOGS BECOME SPONSOR SUPPORTED MAJOR MEDIA SOURCES
8. EMAIL MAINTAINS "KILLER APPLICATION" STATUS AGAINST INSTANT MESSENGER FOR NOW
9. MOBILE WEB AND MOBILE STREAMING MEDIA GROWS
10. EMERGENCE OF UNLIKELY GEEK MEDIA STARS ONLINE
"2005 will see the continued emergence of unlikely geek webloggers that gain national and international fame from being a well known blogger. While some of the names I am about to list maybe be unknown. Here are a few like Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, and Doc Searls. You can rest assured that these names are not unknown to people who are really into following technology."
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