Trends

Determined Trends: Based upon the continuation of current patterns

Social Collaborators

Hackers
Web 2.0 Users (Digg.com, MySpace, FaceBook)
An increasing amount of easy-access free relevant in-depth information available on the internet will be collected and organized by social collaborators. Hackers and computer programmers will collaborate to provide a vast wealth of knowledge on hidden parts of nearly all industries, products and services. Social collaborators use web 2.0 service like Digg.com, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Now that insider information is becoming publically available due to angry or jealous people taking down the corrupt people (by informing authorities) or social collaborators and hackers taking down industries. In order to maintain a sustainable business with the current trends of the public seeking full-disclosure (financial and P/S), any business that does not comply will see their brand image tarnished and their products purchased less. Businesses will work transparently by becoming a fully-disclosed fellow social collaborator to help customers customize their purchases freely.

Stable pricing is not enough to keep customers now and days because there are far too many globalized competitors coupled with a weak dollar. Instead of acting solely as an intermediary, just buying and selling products, businesses will have to evolve into infomediaries. Infomediaries provide an information service that will help their customers to improve their business long-term. These include localizing national marketing plans, establishing social collaborator relationships, recommending future actions that will help sustain the business, and many more other information service based methods.

Open Source CMS Open source programming has been driving the empowerment of people since the creation of computers. Open source coding is created for the people by the people from making all the coding public-knowledge and therefore 100% transparent. You may download any Open Source CMS, install and operate it on your very own server for absolutely free. Open source programs have always out performed private venture programs long-term due strictly to their ability to be shared among a much larger user-base, whom tend to “hack” the coding and openly share their results. This type of open collaboration is getting easier and much more effective thanks to the Open Source CMS. Open source CMS now provides the empowerment of the people on an exponentially increasing scale. This is a tool that will be used by the human race long-term.

A Wiki is an open source CMS that’s simple to use and provides a stable base for long-term expansion of content. Wikis are bringing businesses and people to a new level of transparency and collaboration. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia and their vision is to “imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” They are getting closer than any other human has before. You may download 100% of their vast knowledge resource in under an hour and run it independently on your own computer. Absolutely an amazing piece of open source software.

This became the next big thing on the internet only in February of 2008. The "open source" Identification mission is one username for the majority of services on the internet. In Feb. 08 Google joined Microsoft, MySpace and many other industry leaders in adopting this service.