One of my predictions for 2008 was that “Privacy and personal data ownership will be a critical issue for Web-based businesses.” Well, that didn’t take too long.

Just spotted a post from Richard McManus where recommends a report which uses the term “Web 4.0”. Are you kidding me? However good and/or interesting the ideas might be there, I have only one thing to say about that phrase:

I think what we’re seeing is pure laziness and unoriginality in naming and branding at this point.

Ok, time to man up, face the music, and see how I fared with my predictions for 2007 (from a little over a year ago). It sucks because I was REALLY close on a few of them, a few slid into 2008 by only a couple of days. Oh well, it is what it is… here we go.

I got an interesting comment from Edwin Stauthamer on my last post about my little epiphany about the semantic Web:

When I saw the title of your post I thought I finally found a post that could explain what the semantic web is. Instead of that I read a post…

Tried Pownce last night. I like the idea of realtime broadcast messaging like Twitter and Pownce, but not the implementations. Found it to be clunky, hard to use, and even harder to syndicate properly. All I wanted to do was publish a realtime feed on the sidebar of my blog, and I have not found a way…

As we enter more deeply into the recession (yes, we are already in one), IT spending patterns will change. The New York Times recently ran an interesting article interviewing several high-level IT executives in large companies and how they expect to spend in the economic downturn.