Tripe T. Trend, Trendy, Trending

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Gerald Celente @ Trend forecaster

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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/trends-2010

Deeplink  by Tim Jones

It's the dawn of a new year. From our perch on the frontier of electronic civil liberties, EFF has collected a list of a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we think will play a significant role in shaping online rights in 2010.

In December, we'll revisit this post and see how it all worked out.
1. Attacks on Cryptography: New Avenues for Intercepting Communications

In 2010, several problems with cryptography implementations should come to the fore, showing that even encrypted communications aren't as safe as users expect. Two of the most significant problems we expect concern cellphone security and web browser security.

GSM, the technology that underpins most cellphone communications around the world, uses a deeply flawed security technology. In 2010, devices which intercept phone calls will get cheaper and cheaper. Expect to see public demonstrations of the ability to break GSM's encryption and intercept mobile phone calls. We hope that this will prompt the mobile phone industry to replace its obsolete systems with modern and easy-to-use cryptography.

SSL (in its newer versions known as TLS), the basic security technology of the world wide web, is exhibiting similarly severe flaws. Several powerful practical attacks against real-world SSL implementations were published in 2009; more problems and concerns will emerge throughout 2010. SSL security must be improved.

Despite flaws in how SSL is used, it's still the best system for web security around, and so it also needs to become more widely deployed. Google set a fantastic example this week when it set GMail to use SSL by default — in 2010 we hope to see other online service providers follow its example.
2. Books and Newspapers: .TXT is the new .MP3

Since 2000, the music industry has most spectacularly flailed (and failed) to combat the Net's effect on its business model. Their plans to sue, lock-up and lobby their way out of their problem did nothing to turn the clock back, but did cause serious damage to free speech, innovation and fair use.

These days, the book and newspaper industries are similarly mourning the Internet's effect on their bottom line. In 2009, Rupert Murdoch changed the tone of the debate when he called those who made fair use of his papers' content "thieves". We think 2010 and beyond will see others in the print world attempt to force that view, and break the fair use doctrine by lobbying to change accepted copyright law, challenging it in the courts, or by placing other pressures on intermediaries.

A cluster of similar battles around user control are also gathering around e-reader products like Kindle and Google Book Search, many of which rewrite the rules for book ownership and privacy wholesale.

So, in 2010, will the printed word step smartly into the digital future, or will it continue to stay stuck in the denial and bargaining phase that dominated digital music's lost decade?
3. Global Internet Censorship: The Battle for Legitimacy

For years, the obvious benefits of an uncensored Internet have kept advocates of Net blocking on the defensive. But new filtering initiatives in Australia and Europe combined with growing rhetoric around child protection, cybersecurity and IP enforcement means that blocking websites isn't just for authoritarian regimes any more.

That's not to say tyrants aren't paying close attention to the West's new censors. When democratic governments complain about Iran and China's net policing in 2010, expect defenses of "we're only doing what everyone else does".

2010 will see the publication of Access Controlled, a new book from the OpenNet Initiative chronicling the globalization of Internet censorship; we're excited to see it but concerned about the ways restrictions in different countries reinforce each other.
4. Hardware Hacking: Opening Closed Platforms and Devices

An increasingly active hobbyist community is figuring out how to make a range of devices more useful and open. They are learning how to install new software or make third-party parts, devices, and services work with proprietary high-tech products like video game consoles, printers, portable audio players, home entertainment devices, e-book readers, mobile phones, digital cameras, and even programmable calculators. And, oh yes, contending with restrictions on both cars and garage doors.

Frequently, indignant manufacturers are threatening these tinkerers with legal troubles. Often, these threats are legally baseless — but this hasn't stopped manufacturers from bullying hobbyists into keeping quiet about their innovations.

It confirms the prediction that EFF board member Ed Felten made in 2006: that the rationale offered for "Digital Rights Management" was shifting away from hard-to-defend claims that DRM could stop copyright infringement, and toward uses of DRM to control the functionality of objects in general (often in ways only tenuously connected to copying anything).

In 2009, EFF asked the Copyright Office to protect hobbyists who unlock and jailbreak their smartphones, and we stood up for developers who figured out how to load new operating systems onto TI programmable calculators. EFF's panel of judges also chose to honor Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries with a Pioneer Award in part to encourage the hardware hacking community to continue their good work.

In 2010, phone jailbreaking will become even more mainstream, and the concept will be routinely applied to other sorts of devices. EFF's Coders Rights Project will have no shortage of work to do defending users and developers who want to make their hardware do more than it was designed for.
5. Location Privacy: Tracking Beacons in Your Pocket

It's easier and cheaper than ever for computers to keep track of where you are: there are so many more potential sources of information about your whereabouts, and so many reasons it might be useful or interesting to you, your friends, your boss, or the government.

EFF has fought for location privacy rights, including checks on the government's ability to use your cell phone to find you and to access the information that social networks, mobile operators, and transportation systems collect about where you are and where you travel.

In 2010, awareness of location privacy as an issue will enter the mainstream in the U.S. as a critical mass of end users voluntarily adopt technologies that use or share their physical location — and start to wonder who has access to this information. Many more courts will grapple with these questions this year, building upon the important 2009 decisions in the Connolly case in Massachusetts and the Weaver case in New York. EFF is awaiting the decision in U.S. v. Jones in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where we asked a court to limit law enforcement use of these devices.
6. Net Neutrality: The Rubber Hits The Road

Anyone who watched John Hodgman's famous Daily Show rant knows what Net Neutrality means as an abstract idea. But what will it mean when it makes the transformation from idealistic principle into real-world regulations? 2010 will be the year we start to find out, as the FCC attempts to implement the plan it adopts after its 107-page request for input about how to ensure a neutral Net.

But how far can the FCC be trusted? Historically, the FCC has sometimes shown more concern for the demands of corporate lobbyists and "public decency" advocates than it has for individual civil liberties. Consider the FCC's efforts to protect Americans from "dirty words" in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, or its much-criticized deregulation of the media industry, or its narrowly-thwarted attempt to cripple video innovation with the Broadcast Flag.

With the FCC already promising exceptions from net neutrality for copyright-enforcement, we fear that 2010 could be the year when the FCC's idea of an "Open Internet" proves quite different from what many have been hoping for.
7. Online Video: Who Controls Your TV?

Like the print business, the television business is being radically disrupted by the Internet. The disparate and powerful industries affected — telco, cable, satellite, ISP, software, and production — are engaged in a battle for dominance. But as big business dukes it out, consumer rights risk being left behind.

Two especially bad initiatives to keep an eye on this year: TV Everywhere is a new DRM-laden attempt by the mainstream television industry to trip up innovative upstarts like Boxee. Another scheme, Selectable Output Control, is Hollywood's latest effort to start driving analog interfaces into extinction in favor of DRM-restricted digital interfaces — meaning that Hollywood would decide what you can record on your DVR, rather than you.

In 2010, expect industry to advance those initiatives, as well as to introduce new and similarly problematic schemes along the same lines. EFF, as usual, will be there to try to stop them.
8. Congress: Postponed Bad Legislation Returns

In retrospect, 2009 wasn't disastrous for online civil liberties in federal technology law. With Washington entirely distracted by health care reform, a lot of the most problematic proposed federal technology legislation was delayed, postponed or temporarily forgotten.

In 2010, we may not be so lucky. Key provisions of the Patriot Act, having recently been granted a three-month extension, are up for re-authorization before April 1. The Snowe-Rockefeller Cybersecurity Act, which would grant the President the power to disconnect the Internet, is likely to return sometime in 2010. And, with immigration reform considered a top priority for Congress this year, we can expect to see the national identification card scheme REAL ID (or its twin, PASS ID) again soon.
9. Social Networking Privacy: Something's Got To Give

For some, social networking sites are the Internet. Facebook now has over 350 million accounts — roughly the same as the total number of Internet users worldwide a decade ago. That means that the bad guys who were exploiting security weaknesses in the wider Net in the last decade will now turn in force on the bigger networking sites. And by bad guys, we mean everyone from criminals, to unethical data-mining companies, to ISPs who can't resist snooping on that remunerative personal data passing down their pipes, to governments seeking new ways to track their citizens.

Will a major privacy scandal or two fix the social networking sites' casual attitude to their customers' personal data? Will new laws? Or will technologists and increasingly sensitive Net users find a their own way to protect their privacy?
10. Three Strikes: Truth and Consequences

In countries across the globe, the entertainment industry has been pushing for laws requiring ISPs to terminate their users' connection at the whim of the entertainment industry. In 2009, they got their wish — in France and South Korea, at least. This year will see the spin battle over what is actually happening in those countries.

Expect media industry reports describing amazing local declines in filesharing, aimed at policymakers in other nations considering the same. And look out for local press reports from these three strikes ground zeroes, documenting the calamitous consequences of disconnections, the lack of financial return to working artists, and the political blowback for the politicians who championed these unjust laws.
11. Fair Use of Trademarks: Mockery At Risk

Parody and mockery have long been favorite tools for online political expression and activism. But the powerful entities being mocked sometimes lack a sense of humor about the situation. Increasingly, they're turning to trademark law to badger would-be jokers into silence.

Of course, abuse of copyright law, which governs ownership of content, is nothing new. But until recently, we haven't seen as much abuse of trademark law, which governs ownership of names and logos. Fair Use principles, which allow creative re-use of intellectual property, apply to trademarks just as they apply to copyrights. In either case, IP bullies are just as happy to ignore those principles and make bogus legal threats.

Recently, trademark threats have been levied against activists like The Yes Men, who mocked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They've targeted NYTimes.se, which mocked The New York Times and corporations like DeBeers. They've targeted The South Butt, a clothing line which mocks The North Face. And, only a few days ago, they targeted environmental activist Brian DeSmet for mocking Peabody Energy.

In 2010, expect to see plenty of similar bogus threats. Some of them will lead to litigation, and those battles could in turn lead to important new legal precedents with serious implications for free expression online.
12. Web Browser Privacy: It's Not Just About Cookies Anymore

In the late 1990s, when the conventions for the modern web browser were being determined, certain expectations were established for web browser privacy. Users who wished to take extra measures to protect their privacy could simply choose to de-activate or limit their browser's use of cookies. This would protect them from most of the worst online tracking practices.

And that's how it remained for some time. Or so most web users thought.

As it turns out, corporations seeking to track individuals' use of the web were hard at work developing new and unexpected methods of profiling. For a long time, many of these methods either remained unexamined or were simply performed covertly and hidden from the public. But as we enter 2010, awareness and scrutiny of them is on the rise.

Try browsing the web while using a tool like the Firefox add-on RequestPolicy, and you'll see that many major sites share your web activity with dozens of advertisers and advertising networks. With few technical or legal restrictions on the ability to track you around the web, companies you may never have heard of may have profiles of you which include things about your web use that you don't even remember.

This year the Federal Trade Commission is taking a fresh look at privacy and the use of profiles to target ads based on individuals' behavior on the web. We'll be participating in the process by providing testimony to the FTC, as well as launching our own study of just how easy individual browsers are to track, and how they can be made more privacy-protective.

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i never predicted the new apple iPad to be called that. was expecting something more cool, less Pad. haha.

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Monday, January 4, 2010
( Note: Not to be taken too seriously ! )
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11 Big Surprises for the Next Decade

1. The Collapse Of The Euro- With Germany having such a different economy than the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) the weaker economies of the Euro region had a choice- to leave the Euro or to suffer massive deflation (since prices where too high and devaluation impossible due to the fact that they didn’t have control on the currency). Massive deflation meant budget deficits north of 10% of GDP and with no monetization possible the sovereign debt market of the PIIGS started to collapse.  Like after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the collapse of Greece caused a general panic in the markets, with government bonds of the rest of the PIIGS collapsing since it was clear that Germany will not bail them out. European banks refused to lend to each other and the havoc was over only when the rest of the PIIGS left the currency.

2. China Bluff Exposed - China's communist regime continued to print money, lending it to everybody that wanted and didn't want it. The giant housing, infrastructure, and manufacturing bubble came to a violent crash when the debts where not paid and inflation forced the authorities to tighten despite massive unemployment. The combination of high inflation and high unemployment in the urban centers took the people to the streets.

3. Despite China's Collapse Commodity Prices Turn Up Again- Just a year after China's colossal bust commodity prices resumed their up trend. General scarcity combined with large physical deficits and money printing worldwide caused commodity prices to go up despite a weak world economy. Investors an eventfully the public started to seriously question the legitimism of fiat currencies around the world.

4. Pakistan Collapses- The nuclear state falls victim of various terrorist groups who eventually succeeded in overthrowing the regime. The country falls into a bloody civil war. The U.S military, in a planned operation which was planned during the Bush years takes control of the military facilities and dismantles them. The civil war affects India, which increasingly suffers from terrorist attacks throughout the decade. The collapse of Pakistan symbolizes a new phase in the global "War on Terror" with the pro- American Gulf States becoming the main target.

5. A Third Party Emerges In The United States- When Obama's first and last term ended the American public was fed up with anything that had to do with the elite- Wall Street, the big banks, Congress, the Senate, the Federal Reserve and  both of the big parties. As a result a third party emerged which managed to get a large amount of seats in both houses. The party's candidate for president got 25% of the votes in 2012 and won the election in 2016.

6. Top Officials in the Federal Reserve Criminally Investigated- A silent change that started after the financial collapse of 2008 gained momentum with the bill to audit the Fed. After the bill was approved everyone could know who got all the money that Ben Bernanke printed during the great panic days of 2008. The public was outraged and demanded an investigation of the Federal Reserve.

7. The Dollar remains strong via foreign fiat currencies but loses to gold, eventually the United States and then the world goes back to a Gold Standard- First it was the collapse of the Euro, then the collapse of China, after came the crisis in the emerging world and the commodity producing nations, and finally civil unrest around the globe. In the second decade of the 21st century the world discovered that the United Stated, with all its problems and weaknesses is still the safest heaven there is.

8. The internet moves to live broadcasting, TV stations and cable networks follow the fate of newspapers- During the second decade of the 21st century the technology of broadcasting the PC output on the flat screen TV created a whole new communication environment. Ten of thousands of broadcast where uploaded on the net on a daily basis allowing the web surfers to choose between thousands of news programs, financial and economic broadcasts, home made reality show, and local sitcoms.

9. The United States Remains World's Strongest Economy- In the second decade of the 21st century the United States was suffering. The economy was stagnating and was bouncing in and out from recessions and depressions. The military was involved in countless wars, and the personal and economic cost became unbearable.

10. Japan's Government Bond Market Implodes- The Japanese government and economy got used to record low interest rate. But the combination of government debt reaching 230% of GDP and the ageing population cashing in via the pension funds on the government bonds cause a total implosion. In only 2 month the yield on 30 year government bond went up to 4% causing a panic selling and forcing the government to finally cut the deficit.

11. New Economic Term Developed, A Yo-Yo depression- Throughout first 15 years of the 21st century investors and economists where debating heavily upon the economic environment. Is it deflation, inflation, stagflation or hyperinflation? Eventually, a new term emerged- Yo-Yo depression which describes an economic environment in which the economy moves violently every year or so from inflation to deflation.
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http://israelfinancialexpert.blogspot.com/search/label/predictions%202010

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and how's the market trending?

what do you guys think?

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Gerald Celente @ Trend forecaster

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still F***ed.

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and what's the webtrend for 2010?

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and what trend would be in for 11?

super inflation?

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Top 10 Trends of 2010 Roundup: iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Amazon
BY Austin CarrThu Dec 16, 2010

As 2010 winds down, we've noticed an endless amount of online top 10 lists sputtering across the web. Trends, memes, social media celebs, darlings of the Internet--these rankings are eclectic in their range and subject matter. But most share one common thread: some mention of Ke$ha, Katy Perry, or Justin Bieber. These are artists who not only dominate sales charts, but social media, indicating the two have become inextricably intertwined.

We've lassoed all these top 10s--from Apple to Facebook to Last.fm--all in one convenient location. Here's how the year in trends has shaped up.

Amazon

Best-Selling Albums
1. Taylor Swift, Speak Now

2. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now

3. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

4. Susan Boyle, The Gift

5. Eminem, Recovery

6. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

7. Sade, Solder Of Love

8. James Taylor, Live at the Troubadour

9. Vampire Weekend, Contra

10. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More

11. Jackie Evancho, O Holy Night

12. Various Artists, Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

13. Gorillaz, Plastic Beach

14. The Black Keys, Brothers

15. Glee: The Music, Volume 3

16. The National, High Violet

17. Broken Bells

18. Bruce Springsteen, The Promise

19. Kid Rock, Born Free

20. Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart

Last.fm

Most played albums
1. Ke$ha, Animal
2. Mumford & Sons, Sigh no More
3. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
4. Gorillaz, Plastic Beach
5. Vampire Weekend, Contra
6. Eminem, Recovery
7. 30 Seconds to Mars, This is War
8. Rihanna, Rated R
9. Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
10. The National, High Violet

iTunes

Top-Selling Albums

1. Eminem, Recovery

2. Ke$ha, Animal

3. Lady Gaga, The Fame

4. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now

5. Taylor Swift, Speak Now

6. Drake, Thank Me Later

7. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More

8. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.

9. Jack Johnson, To The Sea

10. Sade, Soldier of Love

11. Zac Brown Band, The Foundation

12. Lil Wayne, I Am Not A Human Being

13. Glee: The Music, Journey To Regionals

14. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0

15. Vampire Weekend, Contra

16. B.o.B, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray

17. Glee: The Music, Volume 3

18. The Black Keys, Brothers

19. Usher, Raymond vs. Raymond

20. Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown

Spotify

Most Streamed Albums
1. The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
2. Lungs by Florence + The Machine
3. Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons
4. xx by The xx
5. Rated R by Rihanna
6. Jason Derulo by Jason Derulo
7. Animal by Ke$ha
8. THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES) by Black Eyed Peas
9. The Element Of Freedom by Alicia Keys
10. The Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z

Google

Fastest Rising in Entertainment
1. justin bieber
2. shakira
3. eminem
4. netflix
5. youtube videos
6. lady gaga
7. kesha
8. nicki minaj
9. grooveshark
10. transformers 3

Twitter & Facebook

Top 10 Twitter Trends
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul

Top 10 Facebook Trends
1. HMU
2. World Cup
3. Movies
4. iPad and iPhone 4
5. Haiti
6. Justin Bieber
7. Games on Facebook
8. Miners
9. Airplanes
10. 2011

via : http://www.fastcompany.com/1710411/top-10-trend-roundup-2010-itunes-facebook-twitter-spotify-amazon

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Well , we can start the compilation for 2011 .....


(1) Australia flood @ eastern australia destroyed thousands of home and killed 35 & 9 still missing.   

(2) Deadly 6.3 earthquake @ Christchurch New Zealand destroyed the entire garden city with  billions worth of property left in rubbles. 65 Killed with more than 100 never to be found.     

(3) Tunisia Revolution that was thought to have started after the suicide of a man who could not fid a job and yet barred from selling frutis without a permit. The unrest ended with the ouster of president and strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and triggered a series of 'copy cat' riots that rippled across the middle east ... egypt, bahrain, yemen, libya, oman, syria, algeria, ...   

(4) Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protecters ousted President Hosni Mubarak ending his over 30 years of power.       

(5) Libya Revolution 2011. Gaddaffi ousted ?     

(6) Singapore announced its 2011 Budget with goodies to scrapped TV & Radio license fees that should not have been taxed in the first place. Ending a 48 year old controversial scheme and some wondering what kind of goody is that? Take money from me to pack ang pow for me? 

(7) Singapore General Election 2011.     

( LKY's New & Last Book ... Hard Truth ... did i say that? Mahathir Launch his book on his view about history of the world but dedicated 50% of it on Singapore and 30% on LKY ... recalling meetings with people whom never met him ... he is in his own world. 

(9) 3D everything.   

(10) iPads and Tablets replaces notebooks and laptops setting new trend in office mobility.   
 
(11) Earth quake measuring 8.7 and giant tsunami struck Japan killing hundreds. (mar'11) 

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i think the toptrend will be a revolt of some sort. not necessarily against the govt. but against a set of fix (usually old) idea.

as with the super interconnect nature n social connectivity. the herd effect will become more.

ie: things will move in bigger swings. super good times, and super bad times.

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half of 2011 has passed.

what's the next big thing to dominate the next 6 months, next 6 years?

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[tags] WebTrend

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2012.

12.