Great expectations
1. Single Sign-on
No idea if Open ID will be it, hope so, but it’s more and more tipping toward Facebook will be our default ID supplier. Which is not good, see 4.
I like Mozilla’s idea of letting the browser being the propietor of your identity. It being a Mozilla idea usually means one of two things: great or dumb-by-committee
2. The fall of Flash
HTML5 and the rise of Javascript will eat away at Flash’s use. I can’t help but give credit to Apple for purposely avoiding Flash on the iPhone, don’t get me wrong I still think Flash was a good idea, but they bollocksed it up by: - crappy implementation on Mac and Linux - Breaks web standards (Regular copy paste) - Not open.
It will carry on to keep some ground, eg Flash games and superslick-animations, but it will lose ground on other places, no it doesn’t make sense to make a full Flash website anymore. Get over it and to experience a better live sans Flash : Click to Flash
3. The rise of Javascript
It’s starting to look like JS is/will be the next great thing, which is kinda odd to say about something that’s always been shoved off as some kind of vb-script. Cappucino and SproutCore or just two examples of great frameworks in JS that show a new kind of Web-framework.
On the serverside take a look at node.js (or here)to be amazed by the effect JS can have even as a serverside language. So learn it, love it even though it has its quirks.
4. The fall of Facebook
No, that’s a lie. It won’t happen in 2010 but I’m hoping it will start happening in 2010. I hate the idea of new walled gardens being created on the web, Google opened the web, Facebook is trying to close it down again. So I’m hoping someone will stand up and create a true open social network. Or at least someone can persuade enogh people to take a look at them instead of Facebook.
Facebook now hold a lot of photos, videos and info on almost everyone. The only one surpassing them could/should be Google — and maybe/probably some secret government organisation, I’d say Israel as they seem to have the best techies — and at least their mantra is “Do no evil”.
Facebook seems to be missing the boat entirely on
5. Augmented Reality
Lie again, it won’t get rid of it’s niche factor until someone implements it in glasses or eyecontacts (this could be a good intermediate solution) and even then it will take some very smart people to make it work. But when they solve this, we’re one step closer to the future. Imagine seeing the speed of cars overlayed on them in traffic, GPS overlayed, Wikipedia info on objects…
Extra note: These guys are on the right path in the whole webcam-brings-objects-to-life. Beats printing a paper and shuffling it in front of the pc anyday.
6. Print is the new web
As in these guys are on to something:
And this one gets the best listing:
As the web is maturing, so are the designs.
- Apparantly they’ve already coined word for this: blogazines. Terrible name.
7. Geolocation
Yes, it was widely predicted as the hot thing of 2009, I’m saying it will finally come to fruition in 2010. Why ?
