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December 14, 2006
2006 Web Trends
Alane at It's All Good points to this neat post from the Read/Write Web. It's another list! it's the Top Web Technology Trends from 2006.
What are the big trends?
1. The year of the Social Network
2. RSS goes mainstream
3. Web 2.0 got overhyped
4. Amazon came out with neat new technolgies
5. Google, MS, Yahoo, Apple and other bogco's went thrugh major changes
6. The Return of VC money
7. Localization matters
8. Consumerization of the enterprise
9. Wdigets are hot
10. Online video is hot
11. VOIP is getting hot
12. Online desktop/Web hybrids are emerging
13. Firefox energized the browser wars
14. Techcrunch has moved to the centre of 2.0 blog action
15. Ajax had strong growth this year.
Plus some smaller trends:
1. RSS filtering
2. Commodization of RSS Readers
3. The WebOS (virtual desktop)
4. Digital Reading market hotted up
5. The mobile Web had continued growth in 2006
6. e-learning had strong growth in 2006.
7. Hot competition between blog vendors
8. Portal plays are growing fast
A number I found most intersting is tha World Internet Penetration is 16% and growing - Asia in particular is ramping up fast! Also noteworthy is that 3/4 of traffic to top websites is international.
Yep, I do lvoe my year end lists.
Read the post for more.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at December 14, 2006 11:09 AM