Please keep banging on about it and we may yet see a new concept emerge that respects the personal, the collective(s) and the unknown… enabling a way to interact with these foci as throttles to tweak when executing searches, still… early days yet.

I read a piece by some agency schmuck that spoke about agencies having to learn to create “publishing assets” for their clients.

And I thought of ths 09 prediction.

The prediction I’d like to have you make is: Which company will take the lead on participatory time travel games? Will it be Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft or Nintendo?

The biggest surprise to me this year is how well Amazon has performed. I thought they had over reached long ago and would be paying for it sooner or later. And something about ecommerce seems so web 1.0. But lordie they have made some incredibly savvy bets, innovate like crazy and are flat out kicking arse as a result.

Agree about the loss of search as a social glue. You’re number five when I do that search.

Disagree on the decline in Google’s search share. It was really so minor (I mean so minor) and depending on the numbers, the share might have dropped by the volume might have gone up. I think you have to look at the long term trend over the year. And over the year, Google saw no significant decline.

As for those deals, yep, worth watching. But noteworthy that Microsoft’s deal with Verizon didn’t keep Google off the Droid phone that Verizon is pushing plus you had today reports about how Verizon BlackBerry people complaining about Bing being on their phones — and Verizon having to issue instructions on how to find Google. Deals were more important when people didn’t have a Google habit. Now, less so.

As for Apple, I think you are right. The reversal? Google! In the space of a year, Apple has gone from buddy buddy with Google and Eric on their board to Google launching a rival phone and operating system in the wings. What’s Apple going to do to retaliate. Go to Microsoft to be a search partner? Seriously, I was just thinking how odd things are now, for those who might not want to deal with big, scary companies. Um, you’ve got a choice between Apple, Microsoft and Google. I think the reversal of fortune happened this year; how it plays out, we’ll see more next year.

As for Facebook, how about shocking being the recent privacy changes? Though some might argue those were predictable. Certainly it’s been a bit of a WTF watching it spin on its heels to try and out Twitter Twitter and open its formerly walled garden to Google.

Both you and Google OS made that prediction for 2009, and I don’t think that you legitimately can call this prediction a wash.