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Welcome back and let’s get ready to make 2007 another successful year!!
Enterprise 2.0 received a lot of interest last year, and this year we’ll start to see the talk come into play especially with wiki like based products. Widgets will be a key factor in online advertising, and became the talk of the town in the last quarter of 2006. This of course has been fueling the discussions about “death of the page view.”
Internet-based TV will see the launch of the Venice Project in 2007 which is another distruptive service from the founders of Kazaa and Skype.
P2P will continue to be another disruptive technology in 2007 with such companies as Azureus and BitTorrent, P2P receiving approximately $30M funding last year. After all, people love to share things – good or bad. Just look at how many views the Saddam execution received on YouTube (800,000 in 3 days).
VoIP saw a lot of new entrants into the market place, including Toronto’s own Talkster, but 2007 will probably see some consolidation amongst them.
Online Video will continue to be a dominate platform for content sharing, mobile phone manufactures are making the cameras better and easier to use which will only help to increase consumer consumption. Google’s $1.65B acquisition of YouTube has forced traditional media to stop and take a serious look and advertisers to get in or get left behind.
Virtual Worlds such as Second Life will continue to grow with a strong 7 million residents by the end of 2006, but we will see the next phase in 2007 with a more 3D look to it which will be possible due to the increasing power behind graphic chips from companies like Nvidia and ATI (which AMD acquired late last year).
Vertical Search across Canada we had a few competitors launching niche based search platform, which will continue to happen in 07, some of the companies we talked about included Mamma.com and Genieknows.com.
With Profectio being up and running since the fall of last year it is now time to take things up a notch, but more to come on that later.
