The year that was and will be: 2008 & 2009

Nothing better for a brain storm than multi-colored markers and butcher paper.

At the first annual Social Media Round-Table Christmas Party we asked those who attended to tell us about 2008 and predictions for 2009. The lists are an interesting mix of reflection, jokes, enthusiasm blurred with foggy thinking and some straight shooting. Waiting clarification for two of the scribbles on 2008. Let me know if I missed anything...

Prize/Award to the best LOL cat creation of 2008 picture (below). Post in comments.

2008 in Review

• Silicoln (sic) Beach started <- A beer to many?
• I met Christy Dena!! (yeah, me too!) :)
  
• Obama Won! WOOT!
  
• Android
  
• Pollenizer Born!
  
• Changing my life completely
  
• Resurrected Webjam! + Learn
  
• Apple store in Sydney
  
• iPhone in Australia!
  
• Rudd & Turnbull join twitter
  
• Beijing Olympics featured on mobile clips
  
• Happener was teh bomb!
  
• Barcamp Sydney 4?
  
• 3eep won awards!
  
• Publishers Love Booktagger!
  
• Radiohead releases album
  
• First visit to Perth! <- Steve Wozniak flew to Perth too!!
• Impressed with Entrepreneurs @Leading Lights
  
• Arctic ice pak grew!
  
• Elias lost his Credit Card in South America
  
• Mick surfs in Spain
  
• Rai went to the F1 night race!
  
• I met Rai!!
  
• Rediscovered Twitter <- stopped twittering.
• Yeah, me too!
  
• Rai/Tangler lives.
  
• Twitter Flies
  
• Aust. Literature Board launches guide...
  
• We had 2 Barcamps!

2009 Predictions

• 3eep/Facebook floats
  
• Orkut merges with Facebook
  
• Earth Hour Involves 1 Billion People
  
• Optus still sucks. (so do the rest)
  
• Android overtakes iPhone.
  
• Nokia launches app store -> that works
  
• Adobe Air Apps run on phones
  
• Silicon Beach acquires the valley
  
• SOE med people get off the high horse & start helping companies
  
• NYT sells about.com
  
• Msft buys Yahoo!
  
• Telstra becomes charity Drops Broadband caps
  
• Atlasian IPOs Bejing
  
• Twitter buys facebook
  
• Vince Cerf is US CTO
  
• Australia doesn’t get a CTO
  
• iphone gets copy & paste
  
• Australia doesn’t go into recession
  
• The Deadpool: plurk, friendfeed, omnidrive, Tivo Aust., channel 9, fairfax, internet filter
• Happener Remains Teh Bomb!
  
• Local VCs raise 500m worth of funds.