Christopher Liu
Totally agree i don’t see 2010 or maybe even 2011 on the full features but it is working as a prototype as this video shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL06VwEmgzI

This kind of technology can then be used to program a robot or such to mimic human movement easier and identify objects for the robot to manipulate and such.
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Or even the security applications of such technology.

I don’t see the iPhone on Verizon as Apple won’t downgrade the technology in their phone to suit Verizon.

I agree with the increase in VC activity. I think that BX is poised to do the most in 2010 in the private equity/VC arena. The fact that they have 20+ billion in cash and 5-6 IPOs scheduled in the coming months is promising.

Your prediction on smart phone adoption is close, but I think another year or two away. If we all lived in cities with a downtown wifi network that covered the entire city, then yes we can do all we want, Twitter, Facebook, gchat, email and make calls with VOIP. But until wifi is that widespread or 3G gets fast enough to hold a VOIP call, I don’t see it happening. Unless you can start a VOIP call at home, jump in the car and go to the grocery store/work without losing the call I don’t see it happening.

My prediction is that Google Android on netbooks will start to pop up. The netbook has a lot of potential. Especially with cloud computing starting to catch on. If you can run the guts of a program on a server and just display it on the netbook, that’s big. At a $300 price point netbooks are going to be hard to beat.

Chang Liu:
Google Voice will slowly start to replace certain calling plans.

Peter Wilhelm
Nice! I think 2010 is where we see that old debate of ours about video streaming services take a leader. I’ve tried Amazon on TiVo, PlayStation Network on PS3, Netflix on TiVo and PS3, and Hulu on the PC (I’m anti Apple still so ignoring iTunes). They all are fledgling now but will sort out the lack of titles, functionality (simple fast forward/… See Morereverse should work right Netflix!), and quality in 2010. Netflix’s Starz loophole is supposed to get plugged tho so we’ll see how they do, and as much as I wish it were PS3, Sony’s strength as a content owner is also a weakness competitively.

Chris Liu:
I dunno if this is coming out in 2010 but its definitely a technology to watch cause it has so many applications because of speech/facial/body recognition.

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I- Phone is suppose to be on Verizon in 2010, but I think they will have a hard time winning that battle with AT&T so soon. They have already drawn the battle lines, so while we know it will happen, I doubt 2010 will be the time.

I just doubt this new newspaper model will work, I have seen some papers do this, and they will need some sort of formula for success.

I think real time search is transormational, but its yet to be seen, so I understand your prediction on this one…

It’ll be interesting what becomes of Wave, I don’t think Google will abandon it quickly, but I could see them folding it into something else or say, taking it offline and revamping it. Really, it just needs to be scaled better. Right now, the biggest problem I have with it, it’s just another thing to check and so, the conversations get ignored.

For predictions? I think Facebook’s dominance will be cut into by an upstart. More of these dominant firms are cannibalizing many of the young upstarts before they can emerge or letting them languish until their capital dries up and then buys them for pennies on the dollar. Since none of them have found a business model yet, the VC shrinkage is going to prevent as many of them from entering the market than we’ve seen before, but…the tumblr craze makes me believe that we’re going to see some sort of upstart that no one sees coming emerge from the fray — in part because I think people just need a new toy to coalesce around.