Ravi Khanal

There would be lots of ups and downs in the world of technology in year 2009. Ten things that might happen in the year 2009 would be:

1. Google’s advertizing model will start facing problems:
Google will have some problems with their advertizing model in the year 2009 and advertisers would be less interested in Google’s ads. Google’s ad should not be context based but rather be user based. Google should read the mind of the user and display the ad, exactly what he is looking for. There should be more localization in the Google’s ads. Now a day people are not so much interested in the Google’s ads, so either Google has to change its advertizing model or it will start facing problems.

2. Microsoft will inch ahead due to Google’s loss of reputation:
Year 2009 will be really bad for the Google. Google is acting as a spy and tracking all the data from cookies. Everybody will think twice before using Google. So the charm of Google is reducing day by day and it will slowly fall behind in the race against Microsoft.

3. Standards will evolve in the Clouds:
Till now everybody has defined cloud according to their way. But in the year 2009, some standards will evolve in the clouds and there will be SLAs .

4. Amazon will appear as the next big thing after Microsoft and Google:
Amazon has now everything and it will evolve as the next big thing after Microsoft and Google. Amazon’s Cloud will be the major success in the year 2009.

5. Virtual Societies will evolve on top of the social networking
Social networking sites will be a downward spiral. Virtual Societies will evolve on the top of the social networking on the year 2009. People will start making virtual societies around them with the same kind of interest and website promoting these virtual societies will become the major highlight for the year 2009.

6. Research will happen on Image Search and Video Search:
Till now we are having Image Search and Video Search only based on the text search associated with the Image and Video. But there would be research on Image Search and Video Search. Till now if the title of any videos is different then we could never get to the videos but if we have Video Search option available then this would be the milestone for stopping piracy on videos. So in the year 2009, big media companies will be sponsoring Universities to research on “Search based on Image and Video”.

7. Yahoo as a Company might be divided into several pieces.
Yahoo as a Company might be divided into several pieces and Google will buy some part of it and Microsoft will buy some part of it. Microsoft will likely buy the search part of the yahoo. Google will buy the messenger of yahoo and combine with their gtalk.

8. Google will buy Mozilla:
Due to and despite the modest success of the Chrome, Google will buy Mozilla to compete against the Internet Explorer.

9. Google App Engine will support Ruby
Till now Google App Engine only supports Python but in the year 2009, it will also support Ruby.

10. Java will evolve through dynamic languages but the SUN will be in crisis
Since Java is moving more towards the open source, Java will evolve through other dynamic languages but SUN will be in crisis.