It’s that time of year when we reflect on the prevoius year and think about what the next will bring. There’s nothing too visionary this, but here goes my attempt at being insightful about some stuff that will happen in 2005:

Blog comment spam increases
I know its’s obvious, not insightful. Rampant advertising and page rank stealing will continue. I’m surprised that blog spammers are still submitting forms. I don’t know why they haven’t started using trackback/pingback yet.
Google will keep threatenning Microsoft
The Standard Oil of our era will be further forced into a defensive stance against (nearly) everybody’s favourite advertising company. MS will probably not do anything innovative unless they are forced into it by competition
Macs will slowly start to gain ground against PCs
This is due to a couple of things: the success of the iPod, and the windows-security issues. The Mac is the natural extention of the fashion accessory du jour. Also, OS X is a well supported non-windows OS that doesn’t seem to be feared as much as linux (but I don’t know how to fix it) distros.
I’ll get more jaded by the ‘me too’ bloggers
I feel myself slipping into this class already, which is why although greatly anticipated by me, the release of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 passed unmentioned (as was google suggest)
Half of the internet will be rendered inaccessible by a nasty bug
DDOS attacks will continue as botnets thrive.
Some cool stuff will be done
people more creative than me will invent the first (insert some new word here). del.icio.us, flickr, technorati who knows what’s next? It will be social and easy to use. UPDATE: Maybe it will be a fellow kiwi