Enkele 'emerging trends' volgens HP
Hewlett Packard (HP) gave us some insights in their vision on web 2.0 and emerging trends for the year to come. They did this by posting a movie, in Shift happens style, on youtube. Here are some of the highlights of the presentation.
Some essential devellopments are:
- The internet
- Communities
- Emerging geographics
- Mobility
- New businessmodels
- New behaviour in communication
Some facts and figures are:
- 150.000 blogs are created every day
- YouTube has more than 100 million downloads every day
- Over 1/3 of all internet traffic is expected to come from peer-to-peer video
- In 2007 the value of social networks is expected to be measurable in billions of dollars
- SecondLife's economic impact is equivalent to that of the South African nation of Namibia
- In 2010 5x more global phones will be sold than PC's
- Movies, books, TV-shows are all increasingly being watched and read via mobile phones
- The number of instant messaging accounts is expected to reach 250 million by 2010
- There are 2 billion mobile phones worldwide. More than the combined number of TV's and PC's
- By 2020 China will be the largest consumermarket. Larger than the US and Europ combined
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