Internet Predictions for 2009

Microblogging, crowdsourcing and online gaming - just three of the ten fearless predictions Gihan Perera and Chris Pudney make for 2009.

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Gihan's 5 predictions:

• Blogging will become more common, because blog reader software is more mature
• There'll be even more free stuff, and businesses will have to monetize through advertising, subscriptions or premium services
• Everything will accessible via your phone
• There'll be more crowdsourcing and collaboration
• We'll have tools to serve lots of social networks at once

Chris' 5 predictions:

• Strong growth in (on-line) games industry.
• On-line advertising revenues will fall: a consequence of the predicted economic downturn, and ad-blocking.
• Everything will be in The Cloud (web-hosted software services), spurred by drive to reduce costs and improving reliability.
• Continued strong growth in Internet population mainly from developing nations.
• Social Networking web-sites will become more popular.

And we both think ... Australia won't censor the Internet! But we might get a face-saving watered-down version.