What's the next big thing?

[JKProsperity]

What do you think the next hot product will be? What's the next Acai Berry or ShamWow?

[Lambo]

it will be an invisible car

[13future]

I would say Resveratrol. It seems to be getting hotter each day.

[byzantium]

it will be an invisible car

How about invisible clothes for the titans of Wall Street? Everybody can see them except a few kids.

[Maverick23]

it will be an invisible car

I've already got one of those



Yeah I made that up....my bad

[FrancisR]

Fuel cell technology

or

Solar Power

Anything involving renewable energy

[Proph]

in the next couple of years, i would have to say a netbook size touchscreen tablet.

what should it be? touch screen technology that doesn't suck. even the best out there is still iffy.

it sounds like you are asking about smaller products though, in that vein i will have to say something that steams and cleans baseboards in your house easily. kind of like the new steam mops for the kitchen but designed to roll along the base boards and clean them as you walk. i have out of town guests coming in this weekend and cleaning the base boards is a pain the butt. especially if you have alot of sq ft.

[Latinpreneur]

i doubt it would be the shamwow

[snguyen75094]

i agree with renewable energy the sun getting closer and its getting hotter

[Latinpreneur]

the next big TREND is without a doubt a GREEN one. renewable energy, green products, organics and stuff along those lines.

[clabrat]

I agree. Anything green and environmental will be the next big money maker.

[jmcujo]

What was the "last big thing"? What measurement do we use when we say the "next big thing" Is it by volume? Is it by sales? Or is it the mere fact of saying WOW! Life cycles of the "next big thing" could flash right before our eyes and we might not know it even know it. However, I believe the next big thing will be something old made new again...

[bananaman]

What was the "last big thing"?

Facebook, Twitter, Susan Boyle.

[Chabz]

I think one of the next big things that'll happen is that once the large social networking sites reach their peaks (in terms of new user's or activity), they will slowly begin to disintegrate as users begin to break away to more specialized community networks, as web 2.0 technologies become increasingly enriched, whereby users will leave or be more absent on larger generic social sites (i.e. facebook.com) to join a multiplicity of specific network communities relevant to their life situation, or personal preferences (i.e. youngentrepreneur. com). This will become big when a greater number and variety of specialized online communities are established whereby to meet the great diversity and range of users' specific interests and needs.
Why would this likely be so? Because there are certain limitations as to how much an umbrella-type social networking site can do for users' specific interests when it primarily aims to only cater in a general and non-specialized way, that is why this website (youngentrepreneur. com) is able to survive against giants as facebook and myspace, as they fail to adequately meet such niches, or any niche as adequately.

So instead of having one single profile on facebook for example, users will branch out to a number of niche communities that align with their interests (whilst still keeping their facebook account to stay in contact with friends and others), and this will be a slow process as there aren't exactly a comprehensive number of niche online communities to meet all interests, however, giants such as facebook and myspace will diminish in their already established dominance as the rise of user specialized network sites grow.

I think a big way to capitalize upon this is by creating a standard web utility/platform that allows user's to interact with all their different networks through one single interface. Some may imagine that the social networking giants themselves will become this utility as they try to compete with niche networks and attempt to 'swallow' them up. However, I'm confident that this will not likely be the case, as users will not abandon the usefulness of such specialized network sites as these.
Time will tell.

[Iamnotsatisfied]

This may well happen

Just wondering Chabz, what do you do?

Like most of us here I'm guessing you're running your own business of some kind or plan to.

I think one of the next big things that'll happen is that once the large social networking sites reach their peaks (in terms of new user's or activity), they will slowly begin to disintegrate as users begin to break away to more specialized community networks, as web 2.0 technologies become increasingly enriched, whereby users will leave or be more absent on larger generic social sites (i.e. facebook.com) to join a multiplicity of specific network communities relevant to their life situation, or personal preferences (i.e. youngentrepreneur. com). This will become big when a greater number and variety of specialized online communities are established whereby to meet the great diversity and range of users' specific interests and needs.
Why would this likely be so? Because there are certain limitations as to how much an umbrella-type social networking site can do for users' specific interests when it primarily aims to only cater in a general and non-specialized way, that is why this website (youngentrepreneur. com) is able to survive against giants as facebook and myspace, as they fail to adequately meet such niches, or any niche as adequately.

So instead of having one single profile on facebook for example, users will branch out to a number of niche communities that align with their interests (whilst still keeping their facebook account to stay in contact with friends and others), and this will be a slow process as there aren't exactly a comprehensive number of niche online communities to meet all interests, however, giants such as facebook and myspace will diminish in their already established dominance as the rise of user specialized network sites grow.

I think a big way to capitalize upon this is by creating a standard web utility/platform that allows user's to interact with all their different networks through one single interface. Some may imagine that the social networking giants themselves will become this utility as they try to compete with niche networks and attempt to 'swallow' them up. However, I'm confident that this will not likely be the case, as users will not abandon the usefulness of such specialized network sites as these.
Time will tell.