Internet trends 2012

Forbes publiceerde een interessant artikel over de 6 grootste internet trends om in de gaten te houden voor 2012.

Big Data + Cloud
More data has been created in the last three years than the previous 40,000. And with services such as Amazon Web Services, using that data is within the grasp of almost anyone. That's going to do a number on many industries as entrepreneurs target them.

Mobilization of Consumers and Workers
There are 160 million iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPad users, 152 million Android users. Before long there will be 5 billion Internet devices out there. Most people in the world will experience the Internet in their hand, not their desktop or their lap.

Socialization of Everything Online
With more social network accounts than email accounts as of 2009, there are now 860 million social network users. In other words, it's the next great media platform.

Entertainment + Social = Revolution
Eight years of video is uploaded every day to YouTube. The monthly time spent on social networks now has passed that of all the portals, not just Yahoo, but CNN, AOL, and others. Then there's gaming (think Zynga, which goes public this week). All that's going to change completely the world of entertainment, from music to television (if it hasn't already).

Ad Buying: The Move to Online Continues
Online ad spending still hasn't caught up to the proportion of time spent online. That will change (unless, of course, it's so much more efficient to advertise online that a lot of advertising revenues simply vanish–but that will be a big disruption in itself).

Disruption of Venture Capital
Circling the Trains: Perkins says it's a very unsettling time for VCs, a big understatement given the rise of angels, superangels, and incubators, not to mention secondary markets like Second Market. All that's changing the calculus of starting companies (though I think it remains to be seen whether the boom in startups will actually result in more innovation).

bron: http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2011/12/13/6-big-internet-trends-to-watch-for-2012/