Trends in 2005: Vlogs, SOA and IP Everything

Trends in 2005: "Better Get a Vlog


Moblogging, blogging with pictures, will continue growing, thanks to a new generation of photojournalists in the making. Only with moblogging there will be a lot of bad pics along the way. Video blogging has already been streaming out of Weblogs and will be picking up steam fast in 2005, due to better codecs for compression, and the continued growth of video phones via cell phones. This will be a raw year for the trend, but in this mid-decade year, companies will be peeking at a few vlogs to see how their messages are getting out.

BitTorrent, We Hardly Knew Ye

BitTorrent came out of nowhere last year to push peer-to-peer technology to new heights. Thanks to its ability to improve upload/download technology with a system that allows file-sharers to grab content from each other's systems and strip them into shreds until they're ready to be called up by a user and reassembled. But alas, Hollywood caught up with BitTorrent in 2004, with copyright infringement suits by the truckload against folks that pilfered major media files via the network. But the thing is, the technology has legitimate uses, just like the VCR does. And with the Supreme Court gearing up to hear a case involving use of P2P and copyright, expect to be hearing more about BitTorrent and more programs like it. "