Review of the Year 2008 and Trends Watch—Part 1 by Paula Hane, NewsBreaks (Jan 5)
The topics covered in NewsBreaks and found to be popular give us an interesting view of 2008. Two I note from this list are the many news items about Google Book Search (great expansion last year), social search tools (seems unabted), and cloud computing - definitely a trend to watch.
Paula Hane also gives a brief recap of key company acquisitions involving Proquest, Dialog, Gale, Highbeam.
Important trends for 2008 according to Forrester concern Enterprise 2.0 technologies - social networks and wikis are hot, blogging cooling down, rss not understood, podcasting dying.
Other trends: semantic search technologies, twitter, use of gadgets, iPhone and mobile.
Posted by Gwen at January 5, 2009 09:30 PM