Last month Morgan Stanley put together a presentation of some analysis that it had conducted on “developing internet trends.” Below you will find the presentation followed by some comments. I apologize for the comments being poorly outlined below the presentation itself, but due to copy write restrictions I was unable to edit the original presentation.
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Last Friday Twitter engineer Alex Payne (@al3x) tweeted, “If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)” All hell broke loose shortly after as the blogosphere erupted into a collective spazz, making wild assumptions based on Payne’s tweet.
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We’re merely ten days into the decade, and yet we can all tell that this is going to be a big year for innovation. Let’s take a look into the future at the Top 10 (Likely) Tech Trends for 2010…
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