This year, 2006, has been a wild year. All sorts of occurences that happened this year will be remembered for a long time. This will be my last post for this year so I wrote a list of occurences that I know of, some are significant and others are not so significant but funny.

1. Dorks of YouTube got richer with Google’s $1.5+ billion purchase of YouTube.
2. Saddam Hussein got executed
3. A woman got caught for trying to buy something with a counterfit $4 bill in America
4. A Norwegian woman got convicted of rape for giving a sleeping guy a blow job
5. Invisibility Cloaking with Nano Technology has been discoverd
6. The Democrats take the House and Senate
7. A man died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he attempted to open a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer (dumbass).
8. US Vice President Dick Cheney started the year with a bang when accidentally shot a friend while hunting
9. Two prisoners got married after falling in love through the peephole in a jail of the Ivory Coast
10. A Jordanian man got caught for using a fake ID with a picture of Brad Pitt

I added some to the list but others I got from here: News.com.au

Leaving 2006 and welcoming 2007, some predicted interesting things for the new year for internet saavy people.
Online Predictions for 2007

1- Google will acquire more companies. I know you know but it is an easy one to say. Also, their stock price will come down so everyone who didn’t get a chance to buy it can finally feel smart.

2- Online Everything. Basically any service that you can do on your desktop will have been ported to the web.

3- YouTube everywhere. Larger companies are getting hip and will realize that people are spending way more time online and want to annoy them there.

4- The foam evaporates. How many bookmarking companies are there? Too many. How many video sites? Who knows. There are a lot of smaller competitors who will fold and the 2-3 people working there will move on to the next venture or go back to working full time at corporate America.

5- Mobile. Duh! We will get newer, smaller & faster phones. Overall, I see the everyone in America checking email, buying more things with there phone and having more offline mobile interaction with other people. For what this looks like, check out six sense.

6- Blogging. Many companies and individuals will realize that no one cares about them or what they have to say. There will be an anti-blogging day and people will go back to pen and paper=)

7- Second Life. People will realize they need to get a life and stop playing. The media will realize that a very small community has made some loud noises and stop reporting on them.

8- Diggtarded. The 500 17 year olds who control the site off there MAC laptops with tons of stickers will move on to another site. They will learn about women, start showering and spend less time digging.

9- Social Networks. The extreme growth will flatten out but people will grow on to new niche networks.

10- Tech Crunch and Mashable Unite. The two forces of technology reviews will unite in matrimony and a baby site will come out. The site will write about the daily lives of Michael Arrington and Pete Cashmore. It is called MashCrunch. Giga will be jealous and immediately starting dating Venturebeat to produce Gigabeating. Gabe from Techmeme will watch in amusement.

Let’s see what is there for 2007. In my opinion things will get crazier. What do you expect for the upcoming year?

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