Hey everyone,
Been a restful and quiet holiday season here at the ranch, so haven’t been posting. I know I know. At any rate, I thought I’d state some bold, crazy, and just downright mind-bottling predictions.
Politics
- Huckabee beats out McCain for the Republican nomination.
- Clinton defeats Obama and Edwards.
- Clinton then defeats Huckabee in the General Election, making Dennis Miller’s predictions of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton a reality. In an ironic twist, people desire a “Bridge to the Past” — in particular, the world prior to the Bush Administration. Booming economy, no war, good times.
Search
- Google picks up another 5% share. Microsoft starts to spend serious money, still doesn’t buy Yahoo.
- Baidu solidifies in China in a big way.
- Emerging Markets become competitive (South America, India, Russia, etc.) towards the end of the year.
- IAC (Ask.com) merges with Yahoo.
- Personalization (personalized search and personalized ads, in particular) become differentiating features.
- FaceBook Web Search appears (powered by Microsoft). Google pushes their own FB search app heavily.
Football
- New England gets taken down.
Basketball
- Clay Bennett keeps trying to move the Sonics, but can’t get out of the lease until 2010. Both sides dig in. Resolution in 2009.
Personal Hopes
- Randy Pauch sees 2009.
Oh yeah - not making any retail / Amazon predictions this year, mostly as I’m still busy learning about the space.
Happy New Year everyone!
Hey Erik, I found my self browsing an archive of web pages I created back in college, one of which included links to some the the Fifth Element crew. Anyways, you got some pull still back at the UW cause your old webpage acutally forwards on to here after how many years is it now(Ack, we are old now), all the other links were deader than all those clans we whooped on. Just thought I’d give you a shout, comments section isn’t the place for much more than that :).
Hmm, darn thing cut off my Name I put in there, should show as >V
Argh, as a programmer you’d think I would have caught on quicker, lets go with [V]Cyber-Thrasher