David’s 2008 Tech Predictions
- My third Xbox360 will red-ring again.
- Google will launch the Web Service competitors GStorage, GCompute, and GAmazonFlexiblePaymentService.
- Someone will explain what WiMax is, which I’ll try to obtain only to realize it’s unaffordable.
- I will replace my iPhone with a new 3G model, available sometime during the summer. My old one will either go to the girl I’m seeing at the time, my younger brother, or Lindsey.
- Twitter will scale this time.
- Digg will be acquired.
- Jakob will found 7 new companies and appear in 93 Valleywag articles.
- Bobby Andersen will be promoted to “Director” of something at Apple.
- Hundreds of engineers will flee Google looking to do something meaningful.
- Tumblr will continue turning down acquisition offers.
- Bonus: Facebook launches their new ad platform, FaceFriends, that inserts ethnically ambiguous people into your photos holding products that Facebook thinks you’ll like.









