- HIV drug… down to one pill. quietly on the market… this will change lives
- .net 3.5 release… finally a really robust .NET release
- Moonlight/Silverlight – microsoft’s relatively quiet push into multiplatform
- iphone’s pressure on other handsets… the phones that came out for all platforms kicked ass and made mobile a real platform in the US
- xbox live’s continued improvement… this converged device is not going to go away and the consumption/tracking is unbelievably useful to businesses
- online videos destruction of the usefulness of comScore, nielsen as industry benchmarks
- circulation auditing for news/mags joining with online audience measurement – introducing real performance metrics into a speculation business (offline advertising!) is disruptive
- Planet Earth HD series -very special visuals of our planet. may change the nature doc approach forever and certainly was a technical/logistical acheivement
- vonage knockoffs – voip is here…
- bad airlines – generating angst to improve travel in novel ways instead of through more shitty snacks and revised loading procedures
- unlimited calling plans – makes mobile services possible for the masses
- gps everywhere – mapmakers watch out…
- mars rovers – they just keep on going and really make a case for clever space exploration
- solid state memory and memory prices – no need to ever worry about storage. no really
- elections starting so early – will politics ever be about policy again or just getting elected?
- green marketing – what a horrible spin job it’s all turning into. prices go up for green and organic when in most cases it’s CHEAPER (hm, i’ll find some data on that…)
- rubyonrails (again) – it made other language communities make it just as easy. not last year, this year
- … more when I have more time
~Russ
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