Comments on: 2006 Predictions: How Did I Do?

By: aha bls in miami

aha bls in miami — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:36 +0000

Sounds like you are way ahead of the curve. Those could have been 2007 predictions. I personally think that the minute we replace he cable/dish box with some kind of Internet product, the wealth that is entertainment will spread through a larger section of the population.

By: Whos wrong

Whos wrong — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:15:23 +0000

Looks like someone is entering some of these predictions into whoswrong.com. cool.

By: Keith Cash

Keith Cash — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:35:28 +0000

That was some great predictions.

How about this year 2007 picking superbowl winner, world series winner, etc.

Tell us how your insites came about, crystal ball or tea leaves.

Merry Christmas

By: Rick Hanley

Rick Hanley — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:35:10 +0000

Netflix-Tivo? Why? They can’t compete in download. It is absolutely a completely different space than DVD-by-mail. The studios, cables, telcos, Apple, Microsoft, (maybe Amazon, Wal-Mart, CinemaNow, Movielink, Guba, BitTorrent, Blockbuster) will own download/VOD. Netflix? Not a chance.

By: Trogdor

Trogdor — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:56:46 +0000

2. Google will stumble, some might say badly, but it will be significant. Again, not exactly, thought if you want my unvarnished opinion, the jury is still out on YouTube.

Um ... Google & censorship & China, anyone? This may not have gotten the attention of People Magazine's readership, but I'd call it significant nonetheless. Google didn't suffer as much from it as we expected, but it did suffer, and I'd say the biggest reason it didn't lose market share (or even out) is due to stumblings of Yahoo & Microsoft/MSN/Live.

By: Tim Peter

Tim Peter — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:20:09 +0000

Great stuff, John. I'm particularly impressed with your nailing the Time magazine thing (though Newsweek did a cover piece much earlier in the year and Web 2.0 kept plugging along at least until the Time cover).

I'd like to match up your 2007 predictions against mine in a year's time and see who had the better average. Truth be told, if I'm half as close as your latest, I'd be pretty damn pleased. Great work.

By: James Brunskill

James Brunskill — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:32:35 +0000

Anyone else think it would be fun to come up with John Battelle's 2007 Predictions Predictions?

I think since he talks about NDA stuff that surely #13 will make it on the list again. Would that make it the item that will have been predicted for the most years in a row.

I think he will also predict that there will be a major (internal) integration effort amongst the major search engines, they will remove tools that double up functionality and combine services so that they can focus more on the important stuff.

Someone will do something really cool with the Alexia Websearch platform.

Ask.com will continue to pick up search market share.

Microformats will finally start to see some usefulness to find and aggregate specific types of content.

Well thats my guesses, maybe I should have a go at making predictions for 2007 as well. Last year mine were automatically generated!
http://jambecorp.blogspot.com/2005/12/automatic-dotcom-predictions-for-2006.html

By: sohbet

sohbet — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:46:36 +0000

Time World: that was an amazing prediction! It is the only one that is absolutely clear cut, either it made it or it didn’t.

By: Leonard Boord

Leonard Boord — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:22:24 +0000

Time Magazine: that was an amazing prediction! It is the only one that is absolutely clear cut, either it made it or it didn't.
Look forward to 2007 Kazeem

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:47:20 +0000

I agree – great summary! BTW – “We’ve had a nice, linear line of acquisitions this year, but nothing torrid.” – I think this is a good thing!