Friedbeef’s Tech

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” : Charles F. Kettering - inventor (1876 - 1958)

As we eagerly anticipate the new year, here are my own tech predictions for 2007 in tandem with the ‘Reviews and Predictions’ Group Writing Project. What exciting developments would most likely take place soon?

Google will allow cross-product searching

As Google continues to expand it’s ‘virtual office’ offering by driving usage of online spreadsheets, documents, email, and calendars, in 2007, it will offer an option to search across all it’s online services at once.

With this you will finally be able to retrieve all related documents stored on a Google service, and will consolidate Google’s position as the most logical replacement to MS-Office.

Open widget API’s will become a reality

2006 was the year where Gadgets and Widgets exploded in popularity led by the big 3 (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo).

2007 will see all 3 companies adopt a common development platform where production efforts are no longer duplicated and widgets (or gadgets) become interchangeable between services.

Podcasts will have a more structured business model

Blogs have contextual advertising like Adsense to help pay for bandwidth, but most podcasts don’t have a sustainable business model as of yet.

2007 will see the services which offer up short ads that will be contextually assigned to any given podcast. To make it easier to advertise in audio podcasts, advertisers will have an option to submit their advertisement as text, and it would be automatically translated into speech.

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I’m on a holiday now, so here are some posts from our archives, which you might have missed…

Reclaim Your Internet Identity with ClaimID

“ClaimID tries to focus your online presence by giving people an online voice to tell the world who they are, rather than relying on pure search engine results”

3 Ways To Improve Your Cooking With FoodieView

“Cooking is no doubt one of the best ways to save money. The problem is, bar instant noodles, plain rice and fried eggs, I can’t really cook. Enter FoodieView the recipe search engine, which has so far certainly made life easier for a cooking newbie like myself.”

FlickrStorm : Discover Great Photos AJAX Style

“Flickr-storm is a Flickr search front-end which puts together a really good set features which include:

• Discovering related tags
• Batch downloading
• Searching within Creative Commons photos for free use”

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I’m on a holiday now, so here are some blogging tips I’ve recently read, which you might find interesting.

Tip #1. How the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati do it

“The best blogs all have a quite few things in common - regular, well written content and a large number of subscribers are base requisites for a Technorati Top 100 Blog. But what other traits do these select few blogs share?”

Tip #2. FeedBurner Tip: Change the text inside FeedCount Chicklets

“Feedburner provides a sleek Feedcount web graphic that displays the circulation stats of your blog feed. You can choose any custom color scheme for the Feedburner chicklet from Publicize tab of Feedburner control panel but there’s no direct way to change the text displayed inside the Chicklet “…. Until now.

Tip #3. How to make sure your site’s meta-tags are in order

Quick Tutorial on how to fix any gaps in your site’s meta-tags

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