Comments on: What Will Happen in 2009? http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/12/02/what-will-happen-in-2009/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: James Pearce http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/12/02/what-will-happen-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-125047 James Pearce Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:25:46 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=3017#comment-125047 Google will be beaten within 10 years by a company founded in 2009. Google will be beaten within 10 years by a company founded in 2009.

]]> By: james coops http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/12/02/what-will-happen-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-125040 james coops Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:09:44 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=3017#comment-125040 Prediction #1 - in western markets we will start to see the first media "scares" about children using mobile social networks like mocospace, itmsy.com etc as we have already seen in South Africa with Mxit. Prediction #2 - A number of VC funded mobile startups will fail to get second round funding and will either close down or have to radically re-engineer their cost and revenue models Prediction #3 - Admob will hit 10bn ads served per month ;-) Prediction #4 - Mobile commerce will start to take off opening up a new stream of affiliate-based revenues for mobile internet services Prediction #5 - Flat rate data will start to move onto prepaid phone tariffs, following Virgin Mobile's 30p all you can eat offer in the UK, opening up the mobile internet to new segments (e.g. Youth) Prediction #6 - A number of operators and handsets manufacturers (e.g. T-Mobile, Nokia) will launch app stores, whilst these will fail to generate the same excitement as the iphone app store, developers will benefit massively as the software market opens up to new devices Prediction #7 - Some of the successful mobile internet services in Asia such as mobile comics and books will start to take off in the West Prediction #8 - As interest in "web 2.0" declines, "mobile 2.0" will be the new trendy theme in Silicon Valley Prediction #9 - Despite the economic downturn there will be a couple of sizeable acquisitions of mobile internet startups by media companies and operators Prediction #10 - Broadcast Mobile TV will still fail to take-off http://blog.mjelly.com/2008/12/predictions-for-mobile-in-2009.html Prediction #1 – in western markets we will start to see the first media “scares” about children using mobile social networks like mocospace, itmsy.com etc as we have already seen in South Africa with Mxit.

Prediction #2 – A number of VC funded mobile startups will fail to get second round funding and will either close down or have to radically re-engineer their cost and revenue models

Prediction #3 – Admob will hit 10bn ads served per month ;-)

Prediction #4 – Mobile commerce will start to take off opening up a new stream of affiliate-based revenues for mobile internet services

Prediction #5 – Flat rate data will start to move onto prepaid phone tariffs, following Virgin Mobile’s 30p all you can eat offer in the UK, opening up the mobile internet to new segments (e.g. Youth)

Prediction #6 – A number of operators and handsets manufacturers (e.g. T-Mobile, Nokia) will launch app stores, whilst these will fail to generate the same excitement as the iphone app store, developers will benefit massively as the software market opens up to new devices

Prediction #7 – Some of the successful mobile internet services in Asia such as mobile comics and books will start to take off in the West

Prediction #8 – As interest in “web 2.0″ declines, “mobile 2.0″ will be the new trendy theme in Silicon Valley

Prediction #9 – Despite the economic downturn there will be a couple of sizeable acquisitions of mobile internet startups by media companies and operators

Prediction #10 – Broadcast Mobile TV will still fail to take-off

http://blog.mjelly.com/2008/12/predictions-for-mobile-in-2009.html

]]> By: On-deck content and apps R.I.P.? « Mobiletribe http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/12/02/what-will-happen-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-125018 On-deck content and apps R.I.P.? « Mobiletribe Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:21:46 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=3017#comment-125018 [...] at MobHappy is starting to gather input for his prediction for 2009. The start of the end of the mobile [...] [...] at MobHappy is starting to gather input for his prediction for 2009. The start of the end of the mobile [...]

]]> By: Judy Breck http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/12/02/what-will-happen-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-125007 Judy Breck Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:30:08 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=3017#comment-125007 My crystal ball shows mobile learning emerging in 2009 -- but then maybe it is my optimism causing the vision. I wrote this post this morning after reading your request for suggestions for predictions. I had been meaning to record the little story about the girls -- which I think suggests a lot about the present state of mobile: there is an incredible amount that just needs to be "thunk up." Even if that is partially true for mobile edu, your including a prediction for mobile learning can help kick start things: http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/12/03/time-to-dive-into-mobile-learning/ In the same area, this post has gotten a lot of visits, in part of course because it was included in a Carnival of the Mobilists: http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/11/19/with-a-mobile-in-a-pocket-no-child-will-be-left-behind/ My crystal ball shows mobile learning emerging in 2009 — but then maybe it is my optimism causing the vision.

I wrote this post this morning after reading your request for suggestions for predictions. I had been meaning to record the little story about the girls — which I think suggests a lot about the present state of mobile: there is an incredible amount that just needs to be “thunk up.” Even if that is partially true for mobile edu, your including a prediction for mobile learning can help kick start things:
http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/12/03/time-to-dive-into-mobile-learning/

In the same area, this post has gotten a lot of visits, in part of course because it was included in a Carnival of the Mobilists:
http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/11/19/with-a-mobile-in-a-pocket-no-child-will-be-left-behind/

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