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Scoble’s Predictions for 2005

John Battelle’s Look Ahead

I’ll submit mine in the coming week: got to sleep on it first…

Picking up on a prompt from mamamusings:

go up to the address bar in your browser and type in a letter. What link does it suggest? (Be honest!)

Here’s my list:

A is for Apple
B is for Blogsome
C is for Lockergnome’s RSS & Atom Tips
D is for del.icio.us
E is for Wikipedia
F is for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
G is for Google
H is for Heise Newsticker
I is for ITConversations
J is for CogDogBlog
K is for Scoble’s Linkblog
L is for Slashdot Linux
M is for MacSurfer
N is for BBC News
O is for OSNews
P is for PubSub
Q is for Quicktopic
R is for Roland Tanglao
S is for Scripting News & Slashdot
T is for Technorati
U is for unmediated
V is for W3 Validator
W is for Jon Udell
X is for Xanga
Y is for Yahoo
Z is for Die Zeit

Not entirely as I’d expected, but that’s a snapshot of the top items for the present. Over time it is likely to vary for many of the letters, though.

Lockergnome’s excellent resource RSS & Atom Tips points out a new Free File/Image Hosting service with added RSS: 01FILES.COM.

The service allows you to add descriptions to your uploaded files and images for future usage, and to identify them via rss/xml.

An initial size limit of 3000000 bytes (2.8610 MB) is apparently to be increased shortly.

Looks promising. Lockergnome notes:

As RSS continues to trailblaze its way through the Internet, it is always a pleasure to see services like 01Files.com popping up to heed the call of the wild.

For good measure, here’s an additional recommended read to help the spread of RSS:
RSS for Mom and Dad.

In a couple of live demonstrations on German TV, in which eBay representatives were invited to witness and respond to the security concerns of users, the relative ease with which passwords could be hijacked was successfully repeated.

An impressive and disconcerting show.

(via heise online)

While Google remains terrific and Zeitgeist is nifty idea and all… but the only surprise about this year’s Search patterns, trends, and surprises is how bland and shallow the main stream is in the end.

Perhaps I’m expecting too much, yet when I think about all that data that Google must have… I mean, really, no offense to Miss Spears, but there just has to be something bigger and more profound to be gleaned from it all.

Luckily, there’s more amusement, as usual, in the Slashdot exchange.