Mobile Devices

So, how accurate was I with my predictions last year?

Twitter will still be just as popular, and might get a source of income
If this graph is accurate, then Twitter is still growing. And did they find a source of income? Well, I guess promoted tweets count

Mobile apps will be big, with more services and brands creating apps
Did I get this right? I’m not so sure. The world seems to be going iPad, which I didn’t count on

Rupert Murdoch will try and start charging people to read news online
Another tricky one – we don’t know

Internet streamed media will take one step closer to being at the quality it needs to be, both from the point of view of the user and the broadcaster
There’s certainly not been a shortage of announcements of internet streamed media – with announcements such as Youview and Radioplayer this year. But are they better for the user..?

A little late, but my predictions in technology for 2010:

Twitter will still be just as popular, and might get a source of income
Twitter isn’t going anywhere soon, and they’ll need to find a sustained source of income at some point. I think this year might be it.

Mobile apps will be big, with more services and brands creating apps
Because of this, it will start to become normal to rely on cloud/remotely hosted services for more everyday things, or storing data they normally wouldn’t on their phone, such as using the Tesco iPhone app for a shopping list rather than paper and pen.

Rupert Murdoch will try and start charging people to read news online
It won’t work. Hat-tip to those at Media Guardian.

Internet streamed media will take one step closer to being at the quality it needs to be, both from the point of view of the user and the broadcaster
People started to take streaming TV and radio seriously in the last couple of years, mostly thanks to BBC iPlayer. But I think in 2010 we’ll hear more from those solutions trying to get streaming TV and radio in one place.

I’ll see how wrong I was in 12 months time!