2008 Year in Review

2008 was the year of social networking and mobile internet innovations.

Let's highlight the most interesting news and trends of last year.

Cloud computing hype has reached all time high:

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
• Google App Engine + OpenSocial = Web 3.0?
• IT in 2018
• Wua.la Launches Online P2P Storage Cloud
• Bandwidth usage of the Amazon Cloud has surpassed all of Amazon.com’s website traffic
  

Mobile Internet and gadgets has become a platform:

• iPhone Apps Lead Mobile Internet Innovations
• iPhone Roadmap Possibilities
• Rapid Mobile Broadband Usage Growth

High-Definition Video has started to conquer the Web:

• Hybrid P2P-CDN Streaming Enables HD Video Delivery
• Video Traffic Bandwidth to Reach Exabyte by 2015
• HD Flash Video on the Web

3D and Virtual Worlds have grown:

• Sun's Open Source 3D Virtual World
• Virtual Worlds are Rendered in the Cloud