another companies/VCS are betting on social networks and again from my point of view they are allso wrong because of the same reasons.
1. the market is full (no one need another wikipedia/digg/myspace/youtube)
2. the big players are in the market (MS,google,yahoo) and you don't want to go head to head with them.
so has for the million dollar question... WHAT IS THE NEXT BIG THING?
well i can defiantly point out two things that are going to go strong throughout 2007 & 2008.
the first LIVE HD video services:
when communication becomes non issue (in 1-2 years) and pepole will get enough of Shakira spoffs the demand for live video will grow rapidly and in every field (from reality TV to sports) a lot of the web will become live and in time HD.
a very interesting company in that field is http://www.ustream.tv/as for they now only provide for blogs but I'll bet they have a bright future.
another very hyped player is joost that been spoken a lot and there is no need to introduce.
another BIG thing that will happen is mobile content and mobile application.
the mobile phones becoming smarter every day (Iphone, blackberry, winmobile nokia s60) and my guess (and knowledge) is that 2007-2008 will be the year that the mobile content and applications will blossom, but first the control has to move from the operators to the user , can you imagine that your ISP tells you what software to use? well this is what happening in the mobile industry right now.
some player that need to be consider for the upcoming year are:
1. plusmo a mobile software that let you run widgets on your phone..
2. widsets the same concept from a nokia owned company.
these two are in the right way another player is of course google with gmail mobile and Microsoft has some surprises up there sleeve.
Thats it for now, Navot.
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