2007 was a interesting year(for internet and other things too :). But I will be talking about internet here :). While in 2005-06, many of the new startups were founded, the deadpool started populating a bit later on. There were many interesting concepts experimented with. 2.0 was attached to many things and people found more and more ways to spend their time on internet. But coming back to 2007, Google got good and bad publicity. Digg continued to grow its user base even though the comment system and deletion of entries the created a huge fuss.
We saw loads of office apps being released for web from google, zoho and others. Social networking took a big shape with facebook and the Google’s OpenSocial . Microsoft released silverlight and adobe attacked with AIR. But both the technologies have yet to see some serious use. (What is next year for??)
The mobile phone (add media and internet to it) market saw two bigshots jumping in with iphone and Android. There were otherbig things happening but I need to stop writing right now as I am headed to Las Vegas for the new year…
But what to expect next year? Well… Wait for the phones with Android! Wait for how EU responds to google and doubleclick merger. Wait for companies to respond to iPhone. Wait for the interesting news from me :D!
Avi
