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New York Tech Smarties Make Industry Predictions for '09

January 2, 2009 | 10:35 a.m.

What will be the next big thing in tech this year? How will start-ups grapple with the economic crisis? What's gonna happen to Google? Will Twitter take over the world?

Charlie O'Donnell, co-founder and CEO of career-building site Path 101, asked a bunch of tech-savvy New Yorkers and others to make a 7-second video of their predictions are for 2009. He spliced together the spots in the video posted above. Sam Lessin, CEO and co-founder of Drop.io, predicts a major personal data breach in the U.S.; Nate Westheimer, new leader of the New York Tech Meetup, predicted "location-based everything." Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures, weighed in on online advertising. Mr. O'Donnell himself said there'd be more authenticated celebrity Twitter accounts, so we can expect more "very quotatious" musings from Britney and Shaq! Even Mr. Wilson's teenaged son, Josh, has an opinion ("Etsy will do amazing").

Here is the full list of participants, in order of appearance, according to Mr. O'Donnell:

Bryce Roberts - Managing Director, O'Reilly AlphaTech (@bryce)

Chris Fralic - Partner, First Round Capital (@chrisfralic)

Jim Robinson - Managing Partner, RRE Ventures (@jdrive)

Brady Forrest - Technical Evangelist, O'Reilly Media (@brady)

Charlie O'Donnell - Co-Founder & CEO, Path 101 (@ceonyc)

Whitney Hess - User Experience Designer (@whitneyhess)

Howard Lindzon - Partner, Knight's Bridge Capital Partners (@howardlindzon)

Pete Hershberg - Managing Partner, Reprise Media (@hershberg)

Hunter Walk - Director of Product Management, Google (@hunterwalk)

Howard Morgan - Partner, First Round Capital (@hlmorgan)

Josh Stylman - Managing Director, Reprise Media (@jstylman)

Sam Lessin - Co-Founder & CEO, drop.io (@lessin)

Sarah Tavel - Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners (@adventurista)

Darren Herman - Head of Digital Media, Group Director at The Media Kitchen (@dherman76)

Andy Weissman - Founder, Chief Operating Officer at betaworks (@aweissman)

Brian Harniman - EVP, Marketing & Distribution at Kayak.com

Beth Ferreira - VP, Finance and Operations, Etsy (@bethferreira)

Nate Westheimer - EIR, RoseTech Ventures (@innonate)

Janetti Chon - Community Manager, Web 2.0 Expo (@janerri)

Laurel Touby - Founder & Senior VP, Media Bistro (@laureltouby)

Fred Wilson - Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures (@fredwilson)

Kristin Maverick - Director of Communications, Carrot Creative (@kmaverick)

and...

Josh Wilson, Ladies Man

 

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