Where is the Puck?

Where is the Internet and Internet marketing going? My students of “e-Commerce and Marketing” at Capilano University have done an amazing job in trying to identify the hottest Internet trends. Here are they (edited, grouped by myself): • Mass customization / personalization • Relationship building / customer tracking / CRM • Cloud computing & unlimited [...]

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According to Baseline magazine the following IT trends will shape IT and the business in the following year. They are, among others: – Cloud computing – Energy efficient data centers – Security, risk and compliance management – Enterprise mobility – Social networking – Document management – Web and video collaboration…

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Here is the outlook for 2008 according to Glen Hiemstra (video “Outlooks 2008” as posted on Futurist.com) – partial list of trends and events: – Turmoil in financial markets in US – Continued growth in China – Nanotechnology: more breakthroughs – Home management trend: competition for managing all electrical devices, cable, phone and Internet – [...]

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Microsoft is working on a coffee-table-shaped “surface computer” … based on Bill Gates’ view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch… “Microsoft Surface” will allow people to touch and move objects on screen for everything from digital finger painting and jigsaw puzzles to [...]

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As we have just figured what is meant by Web 2.0 (user generated content; interaction; putting YOU in charge) there is now talk about Web 3.0! The new web (Semantic web or Web 3.0) will become more intelligent by transforming web pages into web database. Discovery engines (described before on this blog) are just the [...]

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Four predictions regarding technology innovations as published in Fortune (December 29th issue, article “The Next Big Thing” by Lee Smith, underwritten by Nasdaq): 1) ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: with China leading the way 2) WEB will be even more central in people’s lives due to changes in consumer demand: consumer will demand information accessible everywhere, edited and [...]

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