Comments on: What’s On Tap: Predictions for 2009

By: Mr pseudonym

Mr pseudonym — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:57:21 +0000

” but Chrome will actually cause Mozilla’s growth to stall, and…”

For me, the new Firefox will cause Mozilla’s growth to stall. I tried it and didn’t like it. No good reason, it is just too jagged and antihuman. I went back to the previous version but when I get forced out of that, I’m shopping.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:10:18 +0000

@Artem: Yep, looking like a pretty hot phone. Too bad Sprint has initial exclusivity in the US. I don’t want to be on Sprint, I don’t want to be on AT&T or T-Mobile — all of which are sub par in my area in terms of coverage and mean that the people I call most, who are on Verizon, I can no longer call for free. So no Pre, no iPhone, but I need a new phone. That means Blackberry or WinMo, I guess… but then, Sprint’s exclusivity with the Palm Pre is supposedly only 6 months — meaning by the end of next year it will more than likely be available on Verizon. So I’m torn now. ;)

By: noozzer

noozzer — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:49:47 +0000

testing forum preview

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:40:06 +0000

Looks like you were right about Palm. Pre is the product of CES, supposedly.

Here are my predictions and ideas for 2009 and beyond: http://beerpla.net/2009/01/10/artems-top-10-tech-predictions-and-ideas-for-2009-and-beyond/

By: Mike the Face

Mike the Face — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:58:54 +0000

Facebook just passed 150M and most of them are real people.

It may be a difficult concept for most developers to grasp but for normal people the Web is about people not things.

Facebook is where the people are, the smart ones, the ones that can write (maybe that’s why the uptake is slower in the US ;o)

The battle is already over before most people knew it had began. Facebook will be bigger than Google!

By: Alec Wood

Alec Wood — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:26:33 +0000

Serious privacy issues for non US residents will prevent web based apps from achieving the level of dominance all you USA based hyping pundits crave for them. If apps such as Microsoft Office are to be web based and achieve wide levels of take up, we need better safeguards to prevent the US government passing the data of foreign competitors to US companies. Certainly there is no way our company will ever use such apps until such safeguards are there. This will be the big issue for 2009 on – how to define the limits of power of traditional government. Certainly nobody in the US government is going to push for better privacy for non-US citizens, and similar situations will occur in many other countries. We need to extend the debate beyond national boundaries and come up with some way of governing and safeguarding data privacy while still addressing national security concerns reasonably

By: O_o.moo

O_o.moo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:50:37 +0000

Will post something longer later after I’ve read all the comments, but I find it interesting that half the comments is about Facebook…

I myself are considering to go back onto Facebook just for business sake O_o

By: addbud

addbud — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:57:09 +0000

testing forum preview

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:15:32 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something here, but I don’t see the point of Twitter. We have e-mail, text messaging, and instant messaging. Unless you’re a trend follower or just bored out of your mind, why would you also need Twitter?
I also don’t get the appeal of Chrome. I downloaded it when I saw a link for it on Google’s home page. I messed around with it for a few days, and then removed it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice browser. I just didn’t see how it’s better (or even as good as) Firefox.

By: TJ Nevis

TJ Nevis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:19 +0000

I use Facebook every day. They have really added some nice applications to keep you interested on their site and they also are able to sort through a lot of the ‘fake’ profiles, where MySpace and the other social websites are falling. I like FB more because the people I meet aren’t just advertisements to a website, they are real people. I could go on an on about why I like it. I like Google Chrome, but one thing I noticed when I downloaded the beta (it may be fixed now) is my hiding Start bar on Windows Vista was not accessible unless I minimized the browser. Everything else about the browser was very impressive, the speed especially. I saw a video on YouTube that explained a lot about how they made it so fast. I’m not too familiar with much of the rest of the article, but I’m sure it’s a good estimate.