Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Looking into the future

There is a bright future for social network sites. This became clear when I read the eight prediction that Frederik De Wachter made about the future of social network sites. He is the founder of tagger.fm, a brand new internet company where you can bookmark your music and share it with your friends. De Wachter sees eight major evolutions in the next year

1. Mobile internet breaks through, thanks to attractive applications and fixed tariffs.

2. Social networks will become the most important youth media.

3. Internet piracy will be successfully attacked for the first time on ISP level in EU countries.

4. The digital sales of music will be the biggest source of revenue for a lot of labels.

5. Packaging of unlimited data and music subscriptions will find acceptance

6. Next to IPhone other manufacturers will bring similar phones on the market. This will make Mobile browsing more interesting.

7. Gent confirms his new role as catalyst for web start ups.

8. In Flanders digital economy breaks through as fourth sector. It will be the driving force of innovation and growth.

Not all of these predictions can be reflected on our internet start up,E-Runner, but we get a good feeling when we read this!

Source: Frederik De Wachter, tagger.fm

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