The '00s, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Major IT technology events of the past decade that will change the future

In no particular order


iPod
Blackberry
Virtual Machines
Multi-Core
PHP
.NET
HTMLX
RSS
micro-Blogging (blogging starting in the 1990s)
Second Life
Google Ad Sense
Google Search
YouTube
Twitter
Facebook
Amazon Web Services
SalesForce.com
Windows XP
Windows 2003 Server
Netbook
iPhone
SharePoint
Google Calendar

And some flops from the last decade

Winodws Vista
Google Docs
Google Wave (I am coming out early on this one)
Office 2007
Yahoo
PopFly
Friendster
UDDI (ever use it)
Semantic Web (I just don't see it taking off)

And major social events which have impacted (for good or bad) IT technology

Soccer Moms (no matter how much damage they are doing to their kids, their need to stay in control 24/7 has been a major boon to technology)
George W. Bush (history will some day right how having a President who did not understand, trust, or care for high technology hurt the US economy and promoted China and India)
The break down of society (well growing isolation has driven more and more people to the web)
Global Warming (need to produce less carbon? have people work from home and communicate via the Internet)
Trade Liberalization (Now you could have all your staff in India you want to be able to have your information workers there connected by the Internet)
Lack of political reform (people are going to YouTube and Twitter almost out of desperation)
Stress (In the end high tech gadgets are really ways of taking you mind off other things)

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