On Digital Media

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) make their predictions for 2010. John’s Predictions Google will give Apple the most competition of any other company in mobile Apple will begin to take web services seriously, embrace “content in the cloud” Early adopters will burn out on social media eBook readers will become mainstream, $9.99 will remain the standard price point. Big publishers scream in agony. Magazine publishers need it to survive. Facebook’s privacy settings will spur lawsuits Live and real-time will be commonplace among early adopters Steve’s Predictions: SEO is Dead! Long-live real-time search The fax machine will see a resurgence via twitter iPhone and Android adoption will start driving down data plan costs to make mobile data almost free Apple’s Tablet will be a no-show or way too expensive to be relevant Microsoft will finally lose ubiquity with IE due to the