Thursday, January 8, 2009

2009 Widget Industry Predictions

In the Year 2009, the follow will happen:

1. consolidation of powerful and useful widgets thanks to Flex, JavaFX and Silverlight
2. Lines get fully blurred from the desktop to the browser because of Os Layering, Widget-App Engines and SSB clients.
3. Consolidation of Widget-apps in mobiles thanks to mobile RIA platforms. that are exactly the same ones dominating the desktop
4. Widgetization in pretty much all online service
5. Live FX Framework Widgets now out and showing a new game for Widgets and Widget-apps
6. Google and Yahoo caving in and finally giving direct support for Windows Vista Sidebar
7. Widgets get into a Socialization Frenzy
8. Widgets get into a Federated Identity Connector Frenzy
9. Widgets turn heavy into branding and entertainment. a blur of Widget Utilities and Widget Advertising starts to happen. a small backlash to follow thanks to that and the ties of widgets with Identity and Sociality
10. Widgets hit big money as engagement, branding and code portability gain the spotlight

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