December 31, 2005

Happy New Year!

Here are some brief predictions for 2006:

1. 2006 will be the year of the mobile Web. We will see a huge wave of innovation as companies large and small get into the act and create innovative new concepts and services for Web users across a range of devices. The mobile Web will go “mainstream.”

2. The mobile Web meets the developing world. Communities that traditionally haven’t had access to the Web, on the other side of the so-called digital divide, will start to become served by Mobile applications and will start to use mobile devices and networks as their single means of access.

3. Bush will be impeached over the illegal NSA wiretaps and leave office in disgrace. Hey, I can dream, can’t i?

Happy New Year everybody!

* Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 0:59 under Mobile Web

3 Responses to “Happy New Year!”

  1. Dan Freakley
    January 14th, 2006 | 14:05

    Happy new year to you too :)

    Love from, another Dan with a blog.

  2. David Adams
    January 21st, 2006 | 18:19

    Dan,
    I’m glad you posted this. I’ve been saying for a while that I thought the mobile web was about to really take off. Usually I am met with complaints about how bad it is and how slow it is and how crappy the user experience is. I guess people don’t remember what the WWW looked like in 1994. Same thing. The networks are getting better, the phones are getting better (much better) and the fact that it’s always with you is so powerful that I believe it is really going to drive a new era ov mobile data; on the web.

    -David

  3. Dan’s Blog (2.0) » Revisiting 2006 Predictions
    December 26th, 2006 | 22:52

    [...] Last year, I predicted that 2006 would be the year of the mobile Web and that the mobile Web would “go main stream.” I think I can say that this prediction has largely played itself out. The rise of the mobile Web has become a topic in the mainstream press. Products like the X-Series from 3 and the Nokia Series-60 Web browser have addressed both the functionality and the cost issues. Opera launched Mini, opening up sophisticated Web browsing to a much wider range of handsets. The work of the Mobile Web Best Practices working group and the Mobile Web Initiative have also played a role in providing guidelines to Web site developers and generating awareness of the mobile Web. [...]

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