Predictions for 2005:

1. Wikiyahoo - Tagging/Folksonomies become the tech talk of the town. Flickr gets acquired

2. Googlets - People cash out and leave Google, creating a startup frenzy in SF

3. An Englishman’s home is a castle in ruins - House prices eventually crash in the UK

4. ReVive la France - Sarkozy preps himself for a successful 2007 presidential bid in France

5. Boingboing blingbling - Gets acquired

6. Click here to drain our bank account - Click Spam worries affect Google’s share price

7. A Google dollars - A cluster of IPOs such as Kanoodle, to capitalize on Internet advertising hype

8. The ‘C’ word – Civil war in Iraq

9. Commitalism - People start to talk about Shanghai as eclipsing NY as the center of the world

10. iPhone - Apple compete with Sony and do a deal with a mobile related company such as Nokia

11. Sleepy in Seattle - Microsoft look vulnerable on three fronts as PC costs drop making their OS look relatively expensive, monoculture security issues cause enterprises to move to products such as Firefox, weblog style publishing encroaches into sacred Office territory

12. Microsix – Microsoft buy Six Apart – they should, but they prob. won’t

13. CD nonplayer - Restrictive DRM built into more and more consumer devices.

14. One person, one vote, one viable party - Blair reelected in UK

15. Bass, how low can you go - The dollar stabilizes temporarily

16. Enterprise software – What is it good for? Huh, absolutely nothing, pay me again

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