Ross Dawson over at rossdawsonblog.com created an interesting ‘map’ of webtrends for 2008 called the ‘Trend Blend 2008+‘ (click to see the complete map, PDF warning). The map is based on the Shanghai underground, having 5 major lines (Society, Politics, Economy, Technology, Demographics) - connecting 5 big trends (Digitalisation, Globalisation, Ageing, Anxiety and Virtual Worlds) [...]

Posted on: January 30, 2008 | No Comments »

Earlier I reported about Virtual World News’ survey amongst 45 big players in the field of Virtual Worlds, and now they want bloggers to answer the same questions:
VirtualWorldsNews.com wants to know your industry predictions and business goals for 2008. Answer the following questions on your own blog and then post a link to your blog [...]

Posted on: December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »

One of my favorite websites is Trendwatching.com. They list, analyze and explain upcoming trends, hypes and subtrends and present these findings in a very attractive and readable way. With all the lists of predictions for the metaverse being posted, I wanted to see how they connected to the most important Consumer based trends. I’ll start [...]

Posted on: December 25, 2007 | No Comments »

The Virtual World News website recently conducted a survey and published its results on trends for 2008. Amongst 45 Virtual Worlds experts (a lot of the usual names, Electric Sheep, Millions of Us, IBM, etc.) answered the following 5 questions:

What are your top 3 trend predictions for 2008?
What business goals have you set for 2008?
What [...]

Posted on: December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »