A special fuel required…

Bye bye dancing sugar plums, and to 2009. A big enthusiastic welcome to 2010! Surviving the roller coaster of the economic meltdown has not been easy for anyone but “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner”. Our evolving digital world presents four interesting trends to harness for business growth in 2010. And, the next big thing on the horizon is…

Our world is being hyper-linked at a rapid speed. Google’s new Android mobile visual search application “Goggles” promises to bridge the gap between our physical and virtual web worlds. In the future instead of wearing earbuds for music I can see the very real possibility of sporting tiny cameras on our glasses that will enable our “own eyes” to conduct an image search and connect and retrieve information from the cloud.

Up at 5:45am I slip out of bed, carefully step over the snoring labradors, collect my first large cup of coffee,and head to my home office – my refuge and thinking centre – where for the next hour I focus on creative thinking, dreaming and short meditation. Henry Beecher, an American minister called “The first hour of the morning the rudder of the day”.

From initially crawling the web once a month for updates, then every few seconds, to now providing real-time search updates from live news feeds on social sites like Twitter and Facebook, Google is on its way towards delivering information at the speed of light. The lines between SEO and social media have now blurred.

They say: “Fear ends where Faith begins”

Lounging in fluffy slippers while sipping on coffee and perusing the daily headlines I am suddenly interrupted by the Twitterers tweeting. Tweeting used to refer to the sparrows in the backyard signaling another angelic day on the planet. Not anymore. Tweeting has become the real-time activity of an emerging hyper-updating cult driven by a manic desire for connecting. They lust for more Facebook ‘friends’, for more Twitter ‘followers’ and more Linkedin connections and