Todd Lyden

Looking back again at 2010 from Social Media Today in 2009: http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/146209 1. Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream Really? Where are they? 2. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks "Location-based applications like  Foursquare  and  Brightkite  will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter."  This is probably half-true. They haven't taken off as gangbusters as everyone thought, but have they been completely assimilated? Not close. Are they generally only effective because of Twitter and Facebook, YES. Will they become more important to the mobile world? Definitely.   3. Enterprise Social Software Applications Will Become Commonplace "Large software providers like IBM, SAP and Oracle will launch, or announce, the first enterprise-grade social net...

  Let's look back at some predictions for this past year and how good or bad they were- First Techcrunch:  http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/01/ten-technologies-2010/ The Tablet -  definitely, iPads are the rage and with others making the moves in the last year, they are the netbooks for the next year. Geo:  Sadly, not as much as you might want to think.  Techcrunch REALLY pushed this as far back as 2009  and it is still not as prevalent as folks who use it think it is versus those that don't. Realtime Search-  There is real-time searching? Yes, but do people really care? Chrome OS  It only took another year and they are finally doing it. Try again in 2011. HTML5  Yes,  but again- another slow burn. Seems to be a theme? Y Mobile Video-  Seriously? Augmented Reality-  Huh? Mobile Transactions -  Wha? Android-  most definitely. This past year and in the last few months saw a huge uptick. 2011 could be a huge year for Googl...