1) Blogging and social networking will merge. Social networks don't promote conversation; they track your connections. Blogs will become a person's online profile becoming almost as necessary as e-mail is today. Social networks will become grafted to blogs

 

2) Web companies will release their APIs for developers to innovate with. It is a mistake to control content in the emerging web environment that is becoming more and more personalized. Web 2.0 content is meant to be free - meaning wherever consumers want to see it.

 

3) Wiki's will continue to be important following Wikipedia  User-generated content has exploded onto the scene -myspace, facebook, eBay, and Flickr. Topic specific wikis will spring up on a variety of web sites. Google will deliver a multi-community version of Wikipedia. The difficulty it is to build a vibrant community that  contributes to the wiki.

 

4)  Mobile applications will experience massive growth. The US is behind Europe in terms of mobile use.

 

5) RSS is going to be extended as a search tool. Developers have to build all tools on top of RSS data to make it useful to everyday users. Want to search through your RSS feeds for a particular keyword? There is lots of room for improvement in utilizing RSS data.