Call me Mr. Cleo.

I’m sitting here taking a peek into my crystal ball and predicting – in my humble opinion – the three most popular sites when the year 2010 arrives.

Listed in no particular order, the three sites are:

• Google/YouTube - they are already one and the same. Google "the brand" will continuously acquire relevant properties as the internet evolves which will keep their site relevant.

• Wikipedia - already the most quoted internet resource on the planet, the brilliance behind Wikipedia is that it queries people's curiosity and builds upon their desire to seek (and profess) the truth.

• MySpace/Facebook/Flickr – These social networking sites will all, in most cases, go away as you know them today because there is not much brand loyalty to these properties. BUT, since most 15-25 year-olds LIVE on these sites to stay socially connected, they aren’t going to simply disappear anytime soon. Eventually the integration (let’s say by Google, Yahoo or MSN) into their overall portal (yes, old term but germane to topic) will become their existence. This will happen much like YouTube is currently becoming more seamlessly integrated into the Google experience.

I think that the next great platform will be born of, potentially, contemporary small businesses founded over next 5 - 10 years. As the next generation of online users (who have grown up using the Internet as second nature) get out of college, they will want to engage their contemporaries inside a virtualized business community to "mash up” their desires to serve to the world at large. They will already be steeped in how they "like" to interact online and thus will drive the next set of requirements for this soon to be realized online community. I think the cycle of innovation will concatenate as each subsequent online "generation" find better ways to use existing technology to realize their life goals…

Want me to read your palm and predict your future?

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