Tawny Labrum

At the beginning of each year the BINC team gets together and creates a list of predictions for the year to come.  It was interesting to see how many of our 2008 predictions actually came true.  Here are our predictions for 2009; it will be intriguing to see how many of these actually prove to be true:

Mel Condos
1. Sales people will be in high demand
2. Wii games will proliferate the market
3. Top engineers and PM’s will always be in demand
4. Mobile and remote working apps will grow
5. VOIP will grow

 Grant Neckermann
1. Yahoo sells in chunks
2. AOL returns to consumer spotlight
3. Wii gets 1st major competitor
4. Venture Funding Falls 60%
5. No major IPO’s in web

Eli Arzhevskiy
1. THQ will be bought
2. Activision will continue to dominate
3. EA will start to make a come back
4. National Gaming will be a good practice
5. My market will dominate yours…

Boris Epstein
1. Microsoft will buy Facebook
2. Yahoo will reemerge as market player
3. Enterprise 2.0 and mobile will dominate
4. Facebook will figure out how to make money

Iditta Yuchourellu
1. Web 3.0 will take over web 2.0
2. Many new start ups with launch
3. Many of those will fail after launch
4. Yahoo will do extremely well compared to 2008

Tawny Labrum
1. Social Networks like Twitter will be the #1 source for news
2. Steve Jobs will retire due to sickness
3. Techcrunch will go under
4. Cell phone applications will be the hottest thing in the industry
5. Amazon Kindle will flop

Georgina Paolino
1. Enterprise 2.0 will be bigger than web
2. Apple will come out with a touch screen monitor
3. Yahoo will get bought out
4. Vista will be replaced by Windows 7
5. Google will buy Facebook

Brian Harold
1. Two larger social networks will merge (possibly Twitter/Facebook, etc)
2. Mobile gaming will become a big deal for a much wider audience.
3. A company will find a way to successfully appeal to the population with an Internet/TV combination of some kind.

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