Related: Predictions 2010. So how did I do for 2010? To the results: Prediction #1: 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. In terms of startups, I'd have to say we're not there yet - the US is still the center of innovation, at least for scaled platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Groupon. MORE >>

The dominant platforms of the US web - Facebook, Google, and increasingly Twitter- all have several things in common, but the one that comes first to my mind is their sophisticated ability to track your declarations of intent and interpret them in ways that execute, in the main, two things. believe the answer is yes. But I digress.as usual.). MORE >>

Our first solution to the web's initial discovery problem was to curate websites into directories, with Yahoo being the most successful of the bunch. Yahoo became a crucial driver of the web's first economic model: banner ads. Let me try to explain, starting with Facebook. But I'm getting ahead of myself. No results. MORE >>

It took both the telephone and the mobile phone 15 years to amass 100 million users, but Facebook did it in 9 months. In fact, Facebook users often have no interactions with up to 50% of their connections. The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and many users have many more. We also see this with phone usage. Answers. MORE >>

Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook? The 2010 Web2 Summit Theme: Points of Control Introducing the theme of this year's event. Will Google Compete With Facebook? Is Yahoo Dead? Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?! MORE >>