# Things to look out for in 2008
technological @ 17 December 2007
Other people have them, so I thought I should too (being a Tech Evangelist I thought I should). Here is my “Things to look out for in 2008″ list, except my list is categorised
Hardware
- Solid State Disks. Rumour has it Apple will be releasing laptops with them in some point during Spring 2008, and so will many other companies. (Solid State has obviously been around for a while, its just taking a while to actually be put in stuff officially… I think 2008 will be the official year)
Software
- Plan 9. Maybe won’t be this year, but expect this operating system to gain more and more momentum from now! It was being created from the late 1980’s… has a long history with some very experienced developers, it was even the first operating system to support UTF-8.
Web Software/Service
- Seesmic. A video based collaboration/social-networking/information-sharing service based on Semantic Web technology. Looks like its going to do quite well, even if it has had some bad reviews from certain people (such as the one provided as a video post on 1938 Media by Loren Feldman titled “Seesmic Review“).
- Twine. I am going to say look out for Twine. Some of the videos of it in action look quite good - but have they given themselves too much hype? There are some good features to this hosted platform suited to “twining” of information in a semantic format. Twine does have similarities and differences with ODS, and I shall lay out these clearly in a future post.
Web Technology (these are predictions rather than “look out for”s:)
- Semantic Web technology will continue to be used more and more. Business people will start realising that RDF is actually quite useful.
- Web 3.0 has already started to become more of a buzzword. It will be split up into at least two parts including: data web and service web. Linked Data will be a bigger issue in the Semantic Web world. The Agent Web will start to appear, but not truly have great presence for a couple of years.
- Small “web 2.0 companies” will fizzle out, combine with other small web 2.0 companies or be bought out by bigger not-just-web-2.o companies.
- More attention will be brought to Attention Profiling, and specifically one format in particular APML.
- More Web 2.0 systems will use OpenID and OAuth, and will start to realise the URI and Object Access potential that have been researched and developed in Semantic Web systems and are available and working NOW.
Just some basic ideas above. I don’t truly know whats going to happen in 2008. But its going to be awesome to find out, and see how it intertwines with my (personal, work and study) interests… and no doubt, I will be blogging about it.
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December 17th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Glad you think APML will play a part next year Daniel
You should come help us out to make that a reality!
December 18th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Thank you
January 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Just found out that I had a mention about this post on InsideTonic (the blog by the Download Portal company Softonic): https://www.insidetonic.com/software-prediction-roundup-for-2008/
Thank you to Nick Mead… (I wonder why that didn’t appear as a trackback)