Giving Users A Choice and Stick It To People
Chanced upon a blog and I extracted the following which I found similarity to my own predictions, particularly “Giving users a choice”, “Stick it to people”.
I found “UK gets blogging” interesting. Blogging is already very popular among the youth in Asian countries particularly Singapore, even the politicians in Singapore are into blogging.
It looks like blogging has not really taken off in the West.
Web trends
- Giving users a choice :
From scheme changers to dragging interfaces to customise your experience, designs are becoming more and more open to user choice. I think this will increase over this year as people are able to choose more and more their experience.
- Feeds to the masses :
With the update of Internet explorer RSS and feeds are now able to more and more. Feeds have been known about by a large amount of online users but I’ve personally experienced a fair few that were not aware of it. This is changing though and I think more and more companies will also start using feeds to keep their customers updated.
- Thinning of the crowd :
I said last year that a lot of the web 2.0 unicorn boom would see maturity and weeding out as the year went on. I think this will continue this year. I for one know from the range I began to play with in beta I now only use a handful. Nothing stays purely for novelty value in the long term - it has to be addictive / compelling and ultimately useful.
- Stick it to people :
The new crack is finding an application your web junkies will suck their hours away with - from twitter to deliicious. 2007 will see more traditional websites seeing these features and incorporating them. This has started to happen and I think 2007 will see this take a faster uptake.
- UK gets blogging :
Apart from small sections of the web design and development industry and some personal ones, the UK has been relatively slow on the blog uptake. 2006 saw a lot of press and fuss about blogging starting to happen in the UK. Before 2006 I often had to explain what the term meant and lately even the casual net users I’ve met are starting to know or at least have heard the word blog.
- More community, more caring - less corporate :
Corporations have always looked for innovative ways to bolster their business and maintain their client base. I see more and more this happening with a pleasant return to higher levels of customer service. This return to customer caring I think in part does actually come from blogs. You get a bad service, you blog about it. Nothing like a blogger to give a company bad press. It’s not a dramatic efffect but it’s happened on more than one occasion.
Source: http://www.diaryofawebsite.com/blog/2006/12/magic-8-ball-new-year/
Tags:blogging, Feeds, rss, web 2.0Tags: Web2.0, Blogging, RSS Feeds
