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This year has been a great year, especially having the chance to be interviewed by Google (and i failed so bad, ahha), being promoted as the Senior web developer at Razorfish, having my birthday in an airplane and a lot more so both technical and non-technical, its just a great year.

Previous year, i made some prediction, http://almondmendoza.com/2009/01/01/happy-new-year-from-almondmendozacom/. Now recap which we prediction did came true.

1) Android did really got big this year, but fake phone from china didnt help it became big.
2) Google globally increase by 1-2 percent, in japan 10+ percent, down in china due to the government favoring baidu? (from http://gs.statcounter.com), google cracked GPS market in US, browser market, smartphone market.
3) Apple release snow leopard in August 28, 2009
4) MS did release win7 (i taught they wont) but i got the lesser version part
5) This one is mysterious, there are source that said it cracked 2 percent (http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Market_Share_Passes_2) and other said its 1 percent.
6) Adobe announce flash 11 but still no linux support but fla will be xml based (therefore it might be easier to create a clone on linux)
7) Not really in financial trouble companies but Google did acquire good companies this year with Admob, reCaptcha and On2.
FB connect is hot this year.
9) Don’t know about this one but this year conficker virus made it to the media.
10) I hate MS for not killing IE.

Now for my prediction in 2010
1) Hardware will be huge next year with usb3, 3d tv with internet, motion controller for ps3 and xbox, mac netbook?, more android phones, bluray with 3d (ps3), e-readers.

2) Adobe will be the source of the viruses and not MS, right now MS is doing a better job on security but Adobe isn’t, so in 2010 Adobe will be the target (same prediction as virus vendors)

3) Android would appear in more hardware like TV, PMP, Media box and a lot more and these might roll out to consumers

4) Googlewave would not take off if its not integrated into other services by Google coz by itself its way too complicated

5) Chrome will eat some of IE/Firefox market share especially in linux where firefox sucks big time. With the Canonical and Google Chrome OS deal, Ubuntu will having the ballot box to choice which browser you want by default, Firefox or Chrome. Or Chrome will be included by default.

6) Microsoft Bing will have a better market share but MS Office, IE, Xbox and Windows will suffer

7) Mac currently has 90%+ of 1000USD+ computers, Mac will take over the 800USD+ as well.

Vivendi would buy another big Game Publisher (Ubisoft/Take-two/THQ) but might not merge it with Activision Blizzard like Sierra is right now.

9) Frontend web technologies would be huge with web3d, O3d, JS2, HTML5 and it will be called web 3.0, ahahh

10) Win7 will be big (but Mac would still be the winner next year) and IE6 will finally die!!! Die IE6 and IE7!!!

These are my predictions, whats yours?

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Here is the SpeakIt for Firefox 3.
http://rapidshare.com/files/171062908/speak_it-0.2.0.2-fx-windows.xpi


Update:
For those who don’t want to deal with rapidshare
speak-it

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