Photo by eir@siLast year around this time i posted a blog with predictions. Let’s see if I got it right…

Windows 7 came and was an instant hit. I didn’t think things would move so fast. I guess people were more fed up with Vista then I expected.
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Youtube is a great resource of entertainment and education. I have frequently used youtube-published-content in presentations to explain things. Here I’ld like to highlight a few great videos explaining some concepts in a very good way. Good explanations are

- understandeable (plain language, laymens terms)
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Yes, it’s that time of the year… Let’s tell you what I think 2009 will bring. 

Windows 7. That’s one. The replacement of Vista should become available. Should we expect a lot from it? I guess so. Vista hasn’t seen the great support Microsoft surely hoped it would get. Many organisations will be skipping Vista in the hope Windows 7 will be better. But will it be better? I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews I’ve read are promising. The end of Q2, or maybe the beginning of Q3 will see the release. Consumers will adopt it pretty quickly (since they can’t avoid it when buying new computers). Businesses will probably start adopting Windows 7 after the first servicepack comes out. I expect to see that before the end of 2009 which means that the real start of the race towards market domination starts at the beginning of 2010. Is this a good time to move to an alternative platform?

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Ok, I know, Many have gone before me and came up with a definition of Web 4.0. I could add a ton of links, but won’t. This link will do:http://www.google.nl/search?q=”web+4.0″. Check that out, but read on first…

Let’s start the counting. Web 1.0 was the original web. It’s still alive and kicking today, don’t worry. This is the web where those with either money or a geeky mind could put content online for you to read. Read-only, unidirectional web. If you wanted interaction, you would have to use other protocols than HTTP on which the web is build. Use ICQ (still alive!) or e-mail or IRC (Yup, I’m that old…). There are the egroups (now Yahoo) and some bulletin-boards (that’s what BB stands for remember?) but that was it. It would take Web2.0 to get to a Read-Write web. Thanks to Ted Lessig for letting us know that! How about http://youtube.com where you, yes you, can create and publish your content. How about blogs, how about social websites where you create your content on your profile. How about http://flickr.com and http://picasa.com. That’s Web2.0.
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The day has come that I write a post about http://twitter.com. I’ve been using this service for a long time and it can’t, nor should be ignored. Many have written before about this microblogging platform that allows you to virtually group-text your followers so it will be a challenge to be anywhere near original in this post. Heck, I’ll try.
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You wouldn’t tell, but, I do have an online identity, or better, a few of them. I also apparently have too much spare time (or use my time very efficiently…). This first post is really meant as a very big stinky unmodest ego-trip. I’ll post a couple of links of pages about ME.

There is however another purpose to all this… You could get inspired and decide to join one or two of those sites and start enjoying them. I’m not going to take the trouble of describing these services for you, since they do quite a good job themselves. Most if not all have an ‘about us’ page that tells you what’s it all about. Maybe I would have to get me such a page as well (will happen, don’t worry…)

So I hope you’re ready if you’re still reading this post… Here goes…

• My Weblog
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• Xing
• mijn MEEID
• Ryze

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