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Personal and Enterprise Tech Trends

Here's 10 trends for personal tech stuff from JWT:

Future Trends in Personal Technology

1. The use of email will decline.
2. Computing will increasingly become untethered.
3. The use of mobile devices will continue to increase.
4. Netbooks will increase in popularity.
5. Personal computers and televisions will continue to converge.

And Paula Hane at InfoToday quotes these trends:

Social networks will transform the nature of work.
Wikis help transform collaboration.
Blogging is not going away?but it does not capture or hold the attention of an enterprise audience.
Social networks will breathe new life into internal blogs
RSS is underappreciated in the enterprise.
Web 2.0 technologies have large and resilient ecosystems and can last for several years or even decades,
Podcasting is on the decline.
Forums are underused.
Companies are beginning to use social networking and community building as cheap marketing tools.
Enterprise search is becoming less mystifying.
Cloud Computing and SaaS are moving us to post-software world.
Semantic technologies are getting ready for prime time.
The iPhone is just the tip of the iceberg on mobile.
Watch widgets, API's, open data, open tools, and mash-ups.
Print is shrinking.
Library and information industry issues will be hot on the legislative agenda.

More details in the link.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).