2009 is coming to a close and the web went through radical transformation and progression as it always does.  Lots of buzz words we’re thrown around like cloud computing, real-time, geo-locate and streaming video. These changes have been occurring under our noses for the past 12 months and their evolution will continue.  Let’s first examine the issue of real-time.

Twitter and Facebook dueled for social supremacy in 2009 with Facebook the obvious front-runner.  Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, stole some special sauce from Twitter by adding some more real-time interactivity with content and user status updates.  Users at first bucked at this change but is now becoming socially accepted among users.

Twitter had changes of its own by re-working their re-tweet system and adding server stability to their infrastructure.  Twitter often crippled as breaking news occurred around the world.

Twitter wasn’t the only big real-time dog hitting the interwebs hard in 2009.  Services like Brightkite, Foursquare and Latitude really took off as users need for ‘real-time geo awareness’ increased.  The ability to track your friends every movement and make stalking easier than ever before really is becoming more accepted in our society.  Perhaps the largest use of geo-location services is finding restaurants using services like Yelp.

Augmented realities are really taking off and will continue to do so in 2010.  Many iPhone applications are taking advantage of extremely accurate cell-phone GPS and built-in accelerometer technology, your phone not only knows where you are, but where your looking.  As you move down the street reviews and content pops up about restaurant reviews, in-store sales, lunch specials etc.

If there is one sure bet in 2010 it has to be mobile phone technology.  Mobile platforms are the future of personal computing and mobile technology will continue to advance into 2010 and well beyond.