1. App Explosion – Mobile phone apps are the new thing. In 2009, we saw the keyboard camera phone become a thing of the past and the “Zach Morris” brick phone enter the Smithsonian. Web designers are branching out into development of these apps and more and more businesses are figuring out that increased accessibility for their consumer base means making a mobile app available. The app trend has almost completely skipped over mobile web development as well, making the technology  almost unnecessary. In 2010, watch as the number of available apps skyrockets and start the conversation for your organization’s own mobile app strategy.

2. Burning Paper – If you have a pet hamster, you had better start looking for something else to line his cage with because 2010 will see more print newspapers biting the dust. Weekend coupons and exclusive content used to be their saving grace, but vendors are making their coupons available online and studies have shown that readers will not pay for exclusive content. The next year could be the year of decline or reinvention for the local and national paper as many have already made plans to go digital.

3. Facebook Flames Out – Gasp! Thats right, I’m calling it. The rise of annoying games, ads, and old people on Facebook means that the user base that made it big (20-30 year old hipsters) will leave and find something new. Make no mistake, it will still be around in a year, it just won’t be what it is today. My prediction: in five year it will be completely gone. Now might be a good time to look into a new social network platform for your church community or organization.

4. Bloggers Burst – Blogs are just getting easier to use and better to look at which means more bad news for traditional media outlets. Already, the major networks are featuring “blog crawling” sections of their programming, a strategy that has kept their audience close and their enemies closer.If your organization doesn’t have at least a blog, do so now.

5. Android Blasts Off – Those folks at Google are sure smart. This is just a hunch, but I think you will see or at least hear rumors of a desktop version of the Android OS. Currently, Android is a mobile phone OS for “Google phones” but the market is ripe for challenge to be sent the way of Windows 7 and Mac OSX. I’m just sayin’.

6. Cyberwars Sizzle – In the next year, we will see more attacks like the recent one from the Iranian Cyberarmy on Twitter. Ever world leader knows that the next battlefield is the digital one and the US is already recruiting heavily for it.

7. Microblog Sparks Up – Twitter is the craze right now, but it won’t be long before another microblogging platform comes along and threatens to be the new thing. I’m not saying that Twitter we be dead in 2010, hardly; I am saying that whatever will replace it will be started in 2010.

So there it is. Have a great 2010 and I will see you back here in a year so we can all either have a good laugh at my expense or we can celebrate my new title of “Prophet.”