Comments on Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: Digital Media predictions for 2008

Excellent article. In this present trend, most of ...

2008-01-18T05:43:00.000Z

Excellent article. In this present trend, most of the publishers are digitized their print publications in order to attract the readers. I saw recently a website called www.pressmart.net provides the digitization services for all print publications and maximum publishers using pressmart.net kind services.

Finally got around to make my own predictions...ht...

2007-12-21T15:01:00.000Z

Finally got around to make my own predictions...
http://thewayoftheweb.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-predictions-for-2008.html#links

The digital swap from print hasn't quite happened,...

2007-12-20T16:21:00.000Z

The digital swap from print hasn't quite happened, but it's ruddy close with Monkey, which would have been a print title to compete with Nuts/Zoo, and instead chose to go free and via email...http://www.monkeymag.co.uk/

And certainly there are new online magazines starting all the time. Obviously www.disposablemedia.co.uk is the one I favour....but there are so many out there now it's getting more and more crowded...

Yep Russell, looks like I got really sharp at pred...

2007-12-20T15:15:00.000Z

Yep Russell, looks like I got really sharp at predicting the past at point 10! I've offered an update in a previous comment but guess I should update the item with relevant links too. Have a good xmas! dc

Nice little haul, Mr C.But 10) is definitely more ...

2007-12-20T14:44:00.000Z

Nice little haul, Mr C.

But 10) is definitely more one for 2007! Virgin Money, no less, recently acquired Circle Lending in the US http://www.virginmoneyus.com/.

Also, not quite the same but www.kiva.org allows P2P VC style lending to third world entrepreneurs.

Russell

Hi Kelvin and Chris, many thanks for your comments...

2007-12-20T13:53:00.000Z

Hi Kelvin and Chris, many thanks for your comments.
Kelvin - big thanks for the zopa link. You know, I knew the name the moment I read it - must have sat in the back of my mind all along. Any idea how it's doing?
Guess I better choose another area for the network to disrupt. erm, top of my head - security. Perhaps a kind of neighbourhood watch on steroids... could be a bit creepy!

Some interesting ideas, here's my quick typo ridde...

2007-12-20T13:42:00.000Z

Some interesting ideas, here's my quick typo ridden thoughts

1) Aggregation - there's so much content out there and I don't think social voting will be able to deal with. I think that's where new media comes in. The old media if they participate in the social world can become curators.

2) The new advertising - I think it's really difficult to predict the future of ads. Facebook Beacon makes sense in some ways but not others. I see blyk as more a extension of the free business model ala google/metro etc.

3) Talking of which…Widgets - i think widgets are the most interesting because they alter our concept of what is and isnt a webpage and the barrier between online and offline. I think more big publishers will start to 'get' granular content which is suited widget dist.

4)A shift in thinking away from the url as destination and towards search as navigation - do you mean like the old AOL Keywords? You'd be surprised how may people use search navigationally already. Use Google's keyword traffic estimater and search for yahoo...

5) And talking of Facebook - i like this id of the line betweeen social network site and os blurring, though given the time MS takes to develop anything 2008 might be a bit optimistic

6) Tools will emerge to allow online videos to end their TV envy.
I think youtube style video will develop into a genre in it's own right in the same way movies are different from sit-coms and news progs

7) Games consoles and game user interfaces will have increasing influence on the UI of both hardware and web experiences - I've got a iPod touch and trust me predictive text on my phone is much more efficient!

8) Celebrity will take a dip - this I disagree with i'm afraid, if anything social networks encourage mini-celebs. Like the tramp from wolverhampton who's death made breakfast news because of a facebook group dedicated to him.

9) On the threat-to-newspapers theme, I think the Sun will go free – is murdoch that brave? imagine if the mail did it what would really shake the market

10) Peer-to-peer collaboration will continue its disruptive march - like http://uk.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/

Great post. So much to comment on, so I'll just di...

2007-12-19T19:11:00.000Z

Great post. So much to comment on, so I'll just dip a toe in. First, 2007, #9 - TV on demand has certainly revolutionized how I consume TV. I don't have cable, and my main entertainment set up is a tv with an OAD antenna and a mac mini. Probably 75% of my media intake is on demand via the net (though over the air digital is pretty nice). Not sure whether it's a blind panic or not, but advertisers certainly haven't exactly figured out the new model. Most on demand tv advertising seems like applying the old ad model to the content with duct tape.

2008, #4 seems easy to lose in that list, but I think the shift from url as destination is significant. This shift reflects the way we now navigate information across a number of different devices and through a variety of modes (standard pages, ads, social networks, embedded media, feeds). We are standing on the edge of this change,of course. I have a friend who claims that his knowledge includes anything he could find via Google. When he can access the web, he's the most intelligent person I know.