Andrey Golub

The original article (very long) is this one: 2007 Web Predictions.

It's for sure not an article of "tonight", I just want to make it visible for MilanIN-ers. It's really nice to read those "predictions", I hope it's true also for those not so much screwed with Internet but just normal people.

And it's also nice becaue there are available 2006 Web Technology Trends (as they say "to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006") from the same team, so one could entertain himself a bit :)

RSS, Structured Data

• RSS will go mainstream in a big way

Enterprise

• Web Office continues to ramp up
  

Web Development

• Rich Internet Apps (Hybrid web/desktop apps)
  
• Semantic Web products (wow! finally! I was participating in such projects still 4 years ago :lol:)
• Amazon Web Services
  

Search and Online Advertising

• a better, more robust online ad model

Microsoft vs Google

• Microsoft's Windows Live services
• WebOS /GoogleOS
• Open Source Desktops

Browsers

• Browser War II

Multimedia

• Internet-based TV
• P2P (2007 will undoubtedly be a good year for P2P)
  
• Virtual worlds
  
• Virtual Money

Consumer Apps

• online real estate market
• social networks: Could social networks prove to be anti-social? (too much time spent)
  

International Web

• OLPC: One Laptop Per Child
• Broadband continues to grow
  
• WWW expands internationally (need to read in the article)
  

Mobile

• VoIP space will really hot up
• Mobile Web may be the big story of 2007

P.S.

Courtesy of mobile Web expert Rudy De Waele, here are 10 specific trends for mobile Web in '07:

1. Flat fees will become more affordable bit by bit.
2. Thus, more user-generated content will become available to the phone; opening the way for mobile users to start using new web/mobile 2.0 services on their phones, such as podcasting, RSS feeds, more user-generated content to upload and use.
3. Big Media Youth Networks going mobile - MySpace, YouTube, MTV and many more players will resolutely go mobile; allowing users to upload pictures, videos and create/consume content straight from their mobile phones. And to share with friends (including mobile forwarding functionality).
4. Mobile search - the big players will start positioning seriously in the mobile market (watch out for deals with carriers/operators and device manufacturers)
5. Mobile ads - the market is growing at a rapid pace (just watch AdMob's ad views ticker box daily)
6. QR codes will start to enter retail markets.
7. Mobile image recognition will pop up in mixed marketing campaigns.
8. Cell Phone memory card swapping - to exchange music/video files.
9. Multiple network download hotspots become available in urban zones - enabling 'on the spot' mobile download and internet access possibilities via wi-fi/wimax/bluetooth/nfc/etc.... (all build in or available immediately)

10. Rise of 'smart client' solutions, for convergence of content and application functionality on mobile devices in general.

Keywords: 2006 Web Technology Trends, 2007 Web Predictions