MEGATRENDS

1. Communicating

2. Unified communications

3. Parallel-time, hypertasking

4. Social networking fatigue, social media & networking opt-out

5. Gestural computing, kinetic devices

1. Communications. Our thirst for chatter is insatiable.

1. Location tools proliferate within social networks.
2. Social media will birth business media.
3. Apps will finally make sense of Twitter
4. Microsoft Wave will arrive, but it won’t be a tsunami.
5. Facebook falls over itself one too many times and stunts its meteoric growth.
6. Mobile net will flourish
7. Outsourcing and virtual assistance will boom
8. Black Hat continues to die and great content drives a thirst for education
9. Design technology and SEO catch up with each other.
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1. Social games overflow out of Facebook.
2. Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media
3. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient
4. Finding Money and Saving Money online
5. Real time web usage outpaces business models

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1. Community Engagement will become the Driver of Local Media
2. Mobile + Local advertising = Penny Saver 2.0
3. Mobile + Advertising + Pubsubhubbub = Alert systems
4. Advertising as Content
5. Everybody becomes a marketer, and some will become sales closers
6. Everybody can become a traveling sales person
7. Virtual socializing and Webinar ubiquity
8. The grass roots Web
9. The stream is more important than website
10. Curation is the new syndication
11. A new era of open soc

1. TV Everywhere
2. Connected TV
3. Mobile Video
4. Video Monetization
5. Video Commerce and Marketing
6. Online Video Platforms

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1. SaaS will continue to grow in acceptance and prevalence in the marketplace but – the term itself will fade in favor of “Cloud (insert your term).”
2. Real business value in SaaS will continue to improve, be better understood and measured more explicitly.
3. Service ecosystems will rise.
4. New services will focus less on “doing it all from day one” and more on their roadmap.
5. Integration requirements will drive standards for service-based communication and interaction.
6. End-user clients and p