Phil Wolff's 26 incriminating 2009 Skype Predictions

Last year's Jim Courtney's 2008 predictions and mine.  In 2009: MacWorld sucks without Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO. Skype brings back Skypecasts with a new feature: with one click, introduce spammers, con artists, and sexy webcam girls to each other. Skype for Neocortex. Mood based on serotonin levels. Very high quality audio and video by tapping directly into the optic nerve and auditory system. Some side effects. Skype for Lovers. Extension of Skype 4.1. Just one buddy to dial. No interruptions. Ultrasimple UI: click the heart. Skype's new platforms have more active developers than BT Ribbit. More than Google Android. Fewer than Apple iPhone. Litigation. 1530 sleep deprived patients sue Skype for keeping them up late. Google Central will be exciting. Google Video Talk adds multiparty video. The Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) will sell out. Yahoo! fires thousands of people. Decimates the messenger team. Hires a new executive team. Reorganizes. Again. Skype introduces multiparty video. The kids love it. WebEx hates it. Skype for Asterisk gets video call support. Dating sites love it. Skype for WoW builds on Skype for Asterisk. The raiders love it.  Skypephone comes to the Americas via partnership with with US mobile carriers. Wal-Mart will carry it. Nothing for Canada. 3 INQ1 sales will cut into 3 Skypephone sales in the UK. U.S. Mobile Carterfone rules (to free mobile phones from carrier contracts) will be considered by the FCC. VoIP falls from telecom jargon. Even VoIP bloggers stop using the term. The public starts using Skype as a generic name for internet talk. eBay's auction businesses will do well in tough times, better in the second half of the year. Skype will make $630 million in FY2009. Peak Skype usage will top 18 million simultaneous users. Skype will serve 23 billion minutes in 2009Q4. Skype scores product placements in: Hannah Montana: The Movie, spurring the rise of Skype pajama parties. The Sinatra Club, using the new Skypeoke feature. Star Trek, as ancient technology. Startups will rally to Running Out Of Angels (March 2009). 24 as Cisco cuts ad spending. In My Pocket (2009) is not about mobiles. Skype issues new krypto since its old cryptographic source code escaped from TOM-Skype control Skype Video for Mobile. Skype buys a streaming video service for smart mobile camera phones. China approves SkypeIn and SkypeOut.