Comments on: 2008 Predictions

By: Macaroni Mike

Macaroni Mike — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:27:40 +0000

Jeff -

There will likely also be a(nother) serious attempt at trying to monetize blogs, videos and more. To cut out the middle-men (media companies) so every brand becomes its own media outlet.

Time will tell how that pans out , micro-payments included or not.

By: Orglex and 2008 Technology Predictions « Orglex Blog

Orglex and 2008 Technology Predictions « Orglex Blog — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:00:50 +0000

[...] Orglex and 2008 Technology Predictions Posted in Coverage by orglex on January 2nd, 2008 I am sure your head is dizzying with the number of technology predictions for 2008. But, we are very encouraged that Jeff Nolan has decided to cover in his round of whats likely to be interesting in 2008. [...]

By: Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph : Venture Chronicles

Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph : Venture Chronicles — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:24:34 +0000

[...] on December 30, 2007Filed Under web 2.0 | Scott echoes a point I made just a few days ago in my predictions post… email is the ultimate social network but the lack of contact granularity makes it [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:29:14 +0000

Anshu,
Check out Xobni… inbox (Xobni spelled backwards) analytics. I first wrote about it in feb and, like you, believe this is a next hot product category.

http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/06/xobni-products-addins-for-outlook/

By: Charlie Bess

Charlie Bess — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:56:12 +0000

I tend to agree with you about SL. It is frustratingly close to interesting. If you have a reason to be there, it can be very engaging (see Dr. Dobbs activities around Life 2.0) but to wonder around and hope that something (work related) happens may be a bit too much to ask — at least today.

By: Anshu

Anshu — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:07:41 +0000

Jeff,
Very interesting. I especially like your prediction number 5 – existing networks such as Email addressbooks are definitely under-mined. In addition to a better addressbook, I would like analytical tools to run on my email messages to analyze who am I talking to, how much time different contacts take to respond, what words and phrases are common etc.
My email just sits there. I want it do something!

By: Nik

Nik — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:26:31 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the encouraging words. I think to build on point 4, one of the reasons we believe that services such as Orglex will become even more relevant is because of their focus and concentration on specific areas.

This focus and concentration on specific areas allows the service to layer in ALL types of content (not just the regular news & blogs). This horizontal content (News, Blogs, Jobs, People etc…) to a vertical area delivers a lot of value to a user interested in that specific vertical. You can take a look at our Venture Capital Vertical Hub (http://www.orglex.com/hubs/venture-capital ) to give you an idea of what we are talking about.

Nik

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:37:50 +0000

Martin,
We already have mechanisms like PayPal for small peer-to-peer payments, what is lacking is a Visa/Mastercard like industry coming together to support it. Maybe Amazon will accomplish this under the AWS banner?

By: Martin Edic

Martin Edic — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:28:15 +0000

Jeff,
Regarding #1, which I completely agree with, I have to ask an age-old question (well not really age-old since we’re in Internet time):
When are we going to see a micro-payment standard? This would change monetization overnight. I realize its been tried over and over but you’d think someone could figure it out. Just some dead simple and secure way to pay small sums for web services…